Day One of Creation has a "good": the light. Day Three has two: the land and the plants. Day Four has one: the lights in the sky. Day Five has one: the teeming fish and birds. Day Six has one: the animals, BEFORE man. And all of Creation at the end of Day Six is called by God "very good." Creation was NOT called perfect, or spotless, or some such, although words in the Hebrew could have conveyed that.
Day Two, the separation of Earth from Heaven (and it is useless to contend that either the Hebrew or the Greek allows us to discriminate between "heaven" and "sky") is not called good. Mankind is not in itself called good. Absent any other theological considerations--just as a consideration in itself--it would follow that the creation of Man separate from Heaven was a condition of lack from the very beginning.
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