If imperfection is part of the human condition we can easily accept that we are perfect as humans now. I am not sure about Jesus and Bhudda but I think Mother Teresa created alot of pain through her adherence to and dissemination of ideas like prohibition of birth control under penalty of eternal damnation. I am not convinced that god is perfect but I am aware that most people think that is true. I guess what I really believe is that god is a concept that we have devised and we, naturally, have made this concept better, purer, bigger and stronger than our own selves. That way we are able to divest ourselves of issues with responsibility and hand everything over to somebody else for resolution. I am not big on the idea of reward- like if I do what god wants in this life and god loves me then at the end of time I'll be paid back by entering heaven or I'll get off the never ending carousel of reincarnation and wind up in eternal bliss.