Claim. God endowed human beings with a 5% portion of responsibility so that they could participate in creation as creators and stand as His object partners of equal standing — not because of the Fall, but as a feature of original design.
Elaboration. SMM grounds the doctrine in God’s purpose for partnership, not in fallen-world corrective work: “Why did God give human beings a portion of responsibility? As He is omniscient and omnipotent, He endowed humanity with those same qualities of creativity. Moreover, as He is also the Subject of eternal and unchanging love, He could not help but vest in human beings a portion of responsibility so as to allow them to rise to a position representing that Subject of love, God Himself” (2.1. The reason God gave us a portion of responsibility, 20-209, 1968.6.9). The same point appears with the 95/5 numerical form: “Even if ninety-five percent of God’s ideal of creation, through which we can perfect ourselves as human beings, was prepared, we would still have to fulfill our five percent portion of responsibility… This would hold true even if humankind had not fallen” (ibid, 115-65, 1981.11.4). Responsibility is therefore part of creation, not a post-Fall add-on; the divine-constraint is intrinsic.
See also. human-portion-of-responsibility, divine-constraint