In the beginning? Do you mean, what does it mean? Maybe it means i wish you well in all that you do? hehe, I really cant say with certainty :).

It was originally God bye, which meant God be with you.

Anyone who has to ask that ,has never dropped his mother-in-law off at the airport for her return home.

"Good Bye" comes from God be with you. It has been shortened over the years since 16th century. Shakespeare used "God be wy you." The substitution for good for God seems to have been mainly due to the influence of such phrases as " good day" and " good night."

I believe that the word Good Bye was meant as a way of saying I am leaving you in friendship and peace ... ~Nemo~

It originally was God be with you. Shakespeare used "God be wy you. When people switch to saying Good night and good day, the the other was changed as well

When it is someone that you are glad to be saying bye to, say GOODbye, otherwise just say Bye! There are some people that it's good to be saying bye to!!!!!!! : O )

1) "According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the etymology of the word 'goodbye' is the alteration of 'God be with you'. Oh! So after saying or hearing the word, one is expected to count on God to ease whatever pain as the effect of the certain word being chanted like an ancient, sacred prayer? But what about those who don't believe in God? Should they be destined to hear or say the word more and more until at a certain point they finally believe in His existence?" Source and further information: http://grotesquerage.blogspot.com/2005/03/surreal-etymology.html 2) "Alteration (influenced by good day) of God be with you." "No doubt more than one reader has wondered exactly how goodbye is derived from the phrase “God be with you.” To understand this, it is helpful to see earlier forms of the expression, such as God be wy you, god b'w'y, godbwye, god buy' ye, and good-b'wy. The first word of the expression is now good and not God, for good replaced God by analogy with such expressions as good day, perhaps after people no longer had a clear idea of the original sense of the expression. A letter of 1573 written by Gabriel Harvey contains the first recorded use of goodbye: “To requite your gallonde [gallon] of godbwyes, I regive you a pottle of howdyes,” recalling another contraction that is still used." Source and further information: http://www.bartleby.com/61/20/G0192000.html

Not as good as the good in good riddance!!

Well, the phrase actually comes from "God be with ye", and has been bastardized since then to, "Goodbye, you son of a bitch."

Happy to see you go?

The happy possibility of meeting again? ;-)

There is no good. It's meant to be God and in God be with ye.