It is the theme of many world religions that the human being arrives upon this earth somehow flawed, imperfect, or broken, or becomes so early in life, and that the purpose of the human's mundane existence is to work toward perfecting itself.
In your belief, what is broken and needs fixing? What must you do to go about fixing and perfecting yourself and/or others? To what end?
It is obvious to me that the world....i.e. human beings and their selfish thinking, along with their impact on this planet, its wildlife, and each other is devastating. Politically, commercially and religiously, the world is seeing more disunity than ever before. Humans seem totally inept at recognising what is causing the problem....THEM.
I see the Bible's explanation as the only logical one for me. The Creator originally make everything 'perfect'....we have a collective expectation to live in that perfection, but something went horribly wrong. So how did reality shift so far from the perfection we expect in ourselves, in nature and each other? Aren't we all living in a state of constant disappointment over all of it? Who is truly happy any more?
Creating humans alone "in his image" gave them all the moral qualities that the Creator has...including free will. They were, after all, assigned to be the caretakers of this planet, so as God's representatives, they would need to make decisions....lots of them. But the exercise of free will was not absolute....it obviously needed to be exercised within boundaries that did not allow it to impede the free will of others. Humans were given dominion over the animal kingdom, but not over each other. They were to be ruled by the Creator himself. They alone had to follow his rules in the exercise of their assignment.
Having no capacity for self rule meant that assuming power over others would obviously lead humans into conflict with others, as a battle of wills was inevitable as selfishness would dominate their thinking. Unfortunately, as the Bible tells the story, humans were led to go down that path, so the Creator allowed them ample time, with little intervention, to see where that would take them....and here we are. Everything is broken. Humans are powerless to fix what they have done....selfishness has dictated all their actions....and continue to do so to this day.
The Creator was always going to rein it all in at the end of the allotted time, with lessons learned, and free will remaining as the gift it was meant to be. So this whole mess is exactly what God knew would happen, but the only way to get the message across to us, was to allow us to experience our own ineptitude at self determination. We now have a record to act as a precedent for all time to come. No human will ever be able to say to God...."but you didn't let us try this...." He has allowed them to try everything. All we have proven is that we can't rule ourselves without him.
That is what makes sense to me.