Did God stuff up?

Oscar Wilde obviously thinks so.
"I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability." - Oscar Wilde

I think most people would know what Oscar was talking about when he said this. It is no mystery that man can be a wicked debased creature. That his capacity for cruelty, corruption and malice are second to none. No thing in creation so perverts itself as comprehensively as man. it seems that there is no place or action too disgusting for some person on earth to wallow in.
However that is not the sum total of man. Man also has the exceptional ability to display unmitigated selflessness. To express love to the unlovable, compassion to the underpriveleged, grace to the ungraceful. Man, more than any other thing in creation has the capacity for love, respect, honour, passion, and just plain goodness. Mark Twain wrote “God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.”

So here we have this dichotomy of character that at different times manifests itself to varying degrees in all of us. The question some people ask is "Why did God create us with the ability to be at once so noble and yet so base?". However I think the real question is "How could God have created us with freedom, yet at the same time forced us to always be good and perfect". In fact the two concepts are mutually exclusive, because as soon as you inhibit bad behaviour you are at the same time inhibiting freedom. The more freedom you give, the more chance there is to misuse that freedom for evil purposes. Why do people choose bad behaviour? The same reason they reject Gods ways. Man has an innate desire for complete autonomy and God gets in the way of that selfish desire. The result is that God allows us to be consumed by our own evil desires because he loved us enough to let us choose. But make no mistake: we choose our own behaviours and our own destiny. How about we stop blaming God for what is clearly our fault.

Oscar Wilde was most certainly being facetious, and probably meant something like "clearly there is no God, for who would create such a flawed being, and if he did so then he would certainly not be a perfect God, therefore God is either fake or flawed, and in either case worshipping him is not justified". But I believe that mans pervertedness is just proof of mans pervertedness and evidence that God will not interrupt us in our quest for freedom and autonomy. Yet still he stands by the side of the road offering safety and redemption from our own foolishness. God created us with the ability to cause lots of problems, yet in his love he gave us to perfect solution for all of them.

The difference between Oscar Wilde and myself is that while he states that God made us that way because of His lack of abilities, I believe he made us with freedom to choose either way, out of His divine wisdom.