Miracles versus Magic

I wanted to delve into how I perceive miracles and magic. People made it pretty clear in class that God is associated with miracles and the devil is associated with magic. God creates miracles from nothing, which is precisely what makes them miracles. They happen at a time when there seems to be no hope for things to get better. Miracles are inherently good.
Magic, on the other hand, tends to be inherently evil. The "miracles" the devil creates are not miracles at all -- they are "lying wonders" (Kors & Peters, 101). The text on page 101 goes into further detail about miracles being wrought by some corporeal change. The article says that "demons are unable to change the nature of a body" (101), therefore they do not create miracles.
The magic the devil produces may come about like the miracles God produces, but it does not come from the same place and is considered a sin. In the third article of Aquinas' Summa theologia, he explains that all sins come from the temptation of the devil directly or indirectly. The devil tempted the first man to sin who then went on to tempt another and so on and so forth. The devil may not approach each person directly, but he is the cause of each sin someone commits.
The same may be said about God. One person decided to commit their life to living in a way that God approves of, and then went on to convince others. Although God did not approach each of these people, His interaction with the first person caused a domino effect.
Although the devil's magic and God's miracles are on the opposite end of the human decency spectrum, I think they are both interconnected. Each "phenomenon", if you will, causes a chain event that leads to a bunch of people following it. Even though the devil creates terrible things, he is able to make them seem decent, like something God would create, thus achieving a large number of followers. God's creations are always good, which makes it easy for people to praise Him and live by standards that he would accept.