Getting Started/What is "good" really?

OK,
So my mentor is desperately trying to get me to consistently journal...I'm not very good at it...I'm not much of a writer. But here's my feeble attempt at it. I ponder things, especially things that I question or am challenged by in my faith, so maybe this is the place I can lay it all out. Maybe here it will become congruent, and/or provide an opportunity for me to receive some answers. I'm an out-loud processor, so I'm hoping that this may give me a better opportunity to process and not feel so silly when I hold a conversation with myself!

So, here's my first one:
I'm reading Epic by John Elderidge. I highly recommend it! The part I just finished reading encompasses the fact that we as Christians either do not realize or do not take seriously that we have an Enemy, a true Villian in our story - which is why every movie or TV show we ever watch has to have a villian, because in our core we know that there is one - we just don't acknowledge it in our conscience. Anyways. . . in this part he quotes C.S. Lewis from Mere Christianity...

"Christianity thinks this Dark Power was created by God,
and was good when he was created, and went wrong."

Which in context is a statement of the theology/beliefs of Christianity as a religion. But what if you read it out of context - forgive me, I know that's blasphemy to every seminary student I'm friends with...and very out of character for me - but what if. Work with me here. What if it reads instead:

"Christianity thinks this Dark Power was created by God,
and was good when he was created, and went wrong." (emphasis mine)

What if we read this quote (like I said, out of context) as a realization that we could have missed it entirely.
To put this in perspective:
"God works all things together for the good of those who love him and are called according to his purposes." (Romans 8:28) Most Christians, who have been Christians for awhile have figured out that what God refers to as "good" according to that passage, is not what we humans would consider "good". When I was sexually molested while I was in Jr. High I didn't think that was "good" at the time, or to take it to another level...I couldn't see then how it could even be used for "good". But now, over a decade later...I can definitely see how God has blessed me because of that experience, not despite it. God has used it for good over and over, as I minister to college students and teenagers, and even in my own spiritual journey. It is a part of who I am, no longer an event that took place.

With that in mind, I think I'm pondering that we, Christians/humans, really do not get (at all!) what the word "good" really means. Mark 10:18 tells us that only God is qualified to be labeled/titled as "good".

I haven't studied the Hebrew or Greek on this one...but what if there are two ideas of good represented..."good" as ascribed to creation being one, and "good" as ascribed to God alone, as in the afore-mentioned passage being the other.

What if, when he called things "good" in the Garden (Genesis 1), he didn't mean it to be equated with the idea of "perfect" or "morally upright" as we Christians have deemed it. What if what he meant by the word "good" was that he was pleased that it was what he created it to be...and that not necessarily being "perfect". What if he created it to be tarnished, by the potential of sin, because he knew long in advance that only with the potential for sin could we ever appreciate grace, or have the opportunity to experience his grace. And because of his great wisdom, he knew that our knowledge and experience of that Amazing Grace, would cause him the most glory...which is what his primary focus is....his glory! But the "good" found in Mark 10:18 referring to God's goodness, and only his, being equated with the idea of perfection.

Just a thought. Maybe not truth...but maybe it is. I have a peace in my heart as I write this, that just maybe God has given me a spirit of wisdom and revelation as Paul talks about in Ephesians 1 - that which may cause me to know him better.

I'm not saying I'm 100% right. I don't want any "you're going to Hell for believing this" responses from you well-meaning, "let's set her straight" Christians. I'm just thinking out-loud. It's what I do. And God has challenged me to do something recently that most churches would never challenge Christians to do. I want to read the Bible to find out what it says, not to prove what my denomination and Christian upbringing has taught me to believe over the last 25 years.