God is not good because goodness is the greatest power of the universe to which God bows down as the ultimate supreme being. Rather, goodness and love is the basis of who God truly is, and so every foundation block of the universe is founded on that basic character of the Creator. The universe can only truly work if functioning on the basis of the character of the Being of creation itself.
The point of the story of Adam and Eve is not that humanity rejected the leadership of God, or that they just disobeyed God. Rather, they rejected His goodness, His bounty, His love. They rejected what is good to see a balance between benevolence and selfishness, between love and apathy, between good and evil.
Creation was not built on a balance, but on radical goodness. All has been out of balance because the center of gravity has shifted. And every single one of us, to a person, has chosen almost every day to accept this compromise with evil and selfishness, rather than completely surrendering to love and trusting that God would take care of us. God, cause us to repent!
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