In the beginning of the story God is upset with the people on Earth because they are living secularly and solely focusing on the materials of the World. From the story it reads: Of ghostly sight the people be so blind,
Drowned in sin, they know me not for their God;
In worldly riches is all their mind,
They fear not my rightwiseness, the sharp rod;
My law that I shewed, when I for them died,
They forget clean, and shedding of my blood red;
I hanged between two, it cannot be denied;
To get them life I suffered to be dead;
I healed their feet; with thorns hurt was my head:
I could do no more than I did truly,
And now I see the people do clean forsake me. (20-35)
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During the story, Everyman asks various people to go on a journey from life to death with him and they all decline. Additionally, one of the characters that declined to go on the journey with Everyman included Goods (meaning earthly possessions in the context of the story). A basic principle of being a Christian is to not serve any other idol including earthly possessions. God cannot state it more clear when he says “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.” in Romans 6:24. This is illustrated early in the story when Goods was one of the first to depart from Everyman once Goods was aware of the journey Everyman was going on. As the story goes on, Everyman is let down time and time again by all of his acquaintances until the end where Everyman encounters Good Deeds. At the end of the story, Good Deeds was the only character that stuck by Everyman’s side. Throughout the entirety of “Everyman” there is a profound amount of ingrained spiritual wisdom. Towards the end of the story Good-Deeds instills a major piece of wisdom “All earthly things is but vanity:/Beauty, Strength, and Discretion, do man forsake,/Foolish friends and kinsmen, that fair spake,/All fleeth save Good-Deeds, and that am I.” (871-874). During the whole story, the author is trying to get across one point to the reader, and that is death is certain, everything in the world is perishable except one’s relationship with God, and based on how one lives their life in the physical state, will determine their eternal
Drowned in sin, they know me not for their God;
In worldly riches is all their mind,
They fear not my rightwiseness, the sharp rod;
My law that I shewed, when I for them died,
They forget clean, and shedding of my blood red;
I hanged between two, it cannot be denied;
To get them life I suffered to be dead;
I healed their feet; with thorns hurt was my head:
I could do no more than I did truly,
And now I see the people do clean forsake me. (20-35)
This is showing that God is upset with the people of the world after God sent his …show more content…
During the story, Everyman asks various people to go on a journey from life to death with him and they all decline. Additionally, one of the characters that declined to go on the journey with Everyman included Goods (meaning earthly possessions in the context of the story). A basic principle of being a Christian is to not serve any other idol including earthly possessions. God cannot state it more clear when he says “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.” in Romans 6:24. This is illustrated early in the story when Goods was one of the first to depart from Everyman once Goods was aware of the journey Everyman was going on. As the story goes on, Everyman is let down time and time again by all of his acquaintances until the end where Everyman encounters Good Deeds. At the end of the story, Good Deeds was the only character that stuck by Everyman’s side. Throughout the entirety of “Everyman” there is a profound amount of ingrained spiritual wisdom. Towards the end of the story Good-Deeds instills a major piece of wisdom “All earthly things is but vanity:/Beauty, Strength, and Discretion, do man forsake,/Foolish friends and kinsmen, that fair spake,/All fleeth save Good-Deeds, and that am I.” (871-874). During the whole story, the author is trying to get across one point to the reader, and that is death is certain, everything in the world is perishable except one’s relationship with God, and based on how one lives their life in the physical state, will determine their eternal