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How do you distinguish between a magician playing a trick and a man being subject to a miracle by the divine?

For example, let's say you see a video, or a photograph or read a story where a man supposedly jogs across Lake Michigan from Chicago to Muskegon across the liquid water in bare feet.

What is your methodology to tell if this phenomenon is either a trick by a magician with an unknown physical, non-supernatural explanation or if it is a genuine miracle where the divine allowed the man to defy how nature normally works?

Update:

@Syed

You didn't answer the question. I agree that there must be some difference between a person who can perform a miracle and a magician who is just performing a trick. I asked you for how to -tell- that difference. Please edit your answer to address the question.

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  • 7 years ago
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    I'll put it like this - if you see anything that is 'unexplainable', 'improbable', or seems 'miraculous', it's a trick.

  • 7 years ago

    Dude those who are gifted with Miracles are completly different from normal Human beings, they live simply, or may be distant from humans

  • 7 years ago

    until we know about any trick, we call it as magic. presently, we can say it as a trick only.

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