Throughout Coelho's The Alchemist, the concept of "maktub"€”the idea that our destiny is already written€”is endorsed by many characters. What is the...

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was actually written (after The Pilgrimage) in
response to a spiritual awakening that the author experienced while on a five hundred mile
religious pilgrimage.

It may not, therefore, come as a surprise that the
question of predestination arises in this story that deals a great deal with one's faith, though
not necessarily a specific religion. Coelho seems less interested in
furthering the precepts of a particular branch of faith, as in declaring a unity that binds the
entire world together despite people's differences.

The Calvinists (followers
of John Calvin, a Protestant Reformer) believe that God predestines who will be saved and who
will not be savedbefore an individual is born. In other words, they believe that salvation is
not free to everyone. There is nothing in the scriptures that supports thisquite the contrary.
In fact, the entire Bible is filled with examples of God asking the Israelites to
choose , and Jesus doing the same in his short years of...

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