Hi Mike,

I don't want to start a debate here - like Ivo also pointed out, there are better ways or communication mediums to talk over topics like these (over coffee for example).

I think it boils down to what your definition of "good" implies. The bible points out in Romans 3:23 "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God". Only God is perfectly good. God is love, and because someone like you or me can sometimes give without loving, but cannot truly love without giving, He paid the highest price by sending Jesus to die for our sins (which separates, or blinds us from Him) - hence, a loving act because He doesn't want to punish us. 

God created man. period. Ever since sin entered the world, man (people) tried to become his/her own god; man (being part of the created world) wanted to become God (the creator).