Who's to Blame for the Human Condition?

The very fact that there is a human condition - pain, turmoil, poverty, oppression, and so on - is baffling. Made in the image of God, we threw it away and brought the whirlwind down upon ourselves. At least, that's the Bible's explanation. Alternatively, we have these options:

1. We were made somewhat broken, so that some of us are good and some are bad. Let's blame God for not making us perfect.
2. We were made somewhat broken, but we have to pay the price for getting our freedom from God. If that means some pain and suffering, then it's better than being a slave of some deity.
3. God made us all wrong, and the blame for who we are rests solely with him.

Problem with all 3 of these options is that they present us as naturally flawed, broken before we begin. The Bible says we were made glorious, and through the plan God made to bring us back, we can be glorious again.

So, if we were made perfect, how did we end up in the human condition?

Maybe the question itself is flawed. The fact of human misery is as sure as anything we experience. The Bible says we started there and made a choice to cut ourselves loose from God, which put us here. To ask, "How is that possible?" does very little good. The Bible doesn't answer a lot of those kinds of questions, because the answer will do nothing to help us. The fact is that we are here now. The question we need to ask is, "How do we find meaning within the human condition?"