Do you think that God would judge mankind as it is currently "fully satisfactory for its intended purpose."?
Y'know, that can be debated even by people of equally good conscience.
R.C. Sproul speaks of different wills of God.
One is God's "
preceptive" will: The will that God states as a precept, such as "Thou shalt not kill." People break God's preceptive will all the time, and He's allowing it to be so. I would say that's not "fully satisfactory for its intended purpose."
But...Sproul also speaks of God's "sovereign" will, which include all things God causes to happen as well as those things God permits to happen. If God is considered as having an ultimate good planned for mankind, then it could be argued that mankind today is "fully satisfactory for its intended purpose."
A third concept Sproul speaks of, though, is God's "dispositional" will, that is, those things God has expressed as His "druthers" or His "desires" -- those things that are pleasing to God. I think I could argue that mankind today is not "fully satisfactory for its intended purpose" by God's dispositional will.
Here is a case:
God created Adam and Eve. He also created the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Then God imposed His preceptive will by issuing a commandment: Do not eat of the tree. It does not appear that the fruit of the tree was physically toxic--He had already said that every fruit was "good" for food.
Indeed, from what Paul states in Romans 9, it was the very decree of the command itself that created the
inevitability of sin. If God had never said, "Do not...." there would have been no occasion for sin to occur.
But even prior to that, God created an Adversary to man. Okay, maybe He created a being who would become the Adversary...but God knew that all along and had every opportunity and capability to render the Adversary impotent. So just in case Adam and Eve were able to resist any internal urge to defy God...there was an external Adversary to give them a push.
Adam's sin was--by definition--against God's preceptive will. From all scriptural context, it was also against God's dispositional will--it has not been at God's pleasure. In either case, mankind at the moment is not "good."
But it
must be within God's sovereign will, so in that context it might be argued that mankind is "fully satisfactory for its intended purpose."