Who is God from Everyman, and Medieval Miracle Plays and what is their importance? "Everyman

While God appears as a character in only eight of the sixteen pageants in the collection, he is a powerful presence in all of them. The reason for this is the pageants' essentially religious purpose—to bring religious instruction to the masses through the medium of entertainment. The primary purpose of that instruction is similar to that of the instruction offered by the churches—to indoctrinate said masses in the proper way to live a God-inspired life and join him, at the time of death, in heaven.