Why Did God Let Man Fall?

When I was pondering this question, it occurred to me that God intended the fall of man to happen. The enemy would not have been able to seduce the original man if God had not already planned to make use of this situation. By allowing man to chose in favor of "the knowledge of good and evil", God was placing man under the tutelage of the one who knew the most about the subject, satan himself. The Lord wanted His children to have the benefit of all the devil's "wisdom", of a system based on force and violence, of the "appeal" of the worldview which separates itself from God, seeks to supplant God, seeks to eschew everything God is, and then by default, declares itself to be as good as God. This system, the "knowledge of good and evil" is nothing more than death, itself. It is nothing more glamorous than that. God is life, love, and all good things. Anything apart from Him has none of these things. Evil seeks to be like Him, but without Him. What satan wanted was absolute power without responsibility.

God's children are those who have rejected satan's way, the way of dominating. They have taken up the mantra of service and self sacrifice, which is the embodiment of Godly authority. To be like God is to be the servant of all. The children of God will have what satan so coveted, the rulership and dominion. This is being of Him, that we should conquer all through sacrifice. This is being of the same mind as Christ, that we should give everything (of ourselves) to inherit everything. Death has become a mere tool in the hands of God, to be used in this process. ("Be ye faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.") By sacrifice, we gain more of God, His nature, and His motivation. The fallen state is the moulding process whereby we can implement His true choices of courage and solidarity, so in the end, God will raise us far higher than He could have raised mere innocence. We will judge angels because we have suffered, and they have not. In the end, we will have the best of all possible worlds.