I do not agree with the notion that it took disobedience for them to enter into obedience or alignment with another instruction. I believe that when God made man in His image, He was able to achieve what he set out to do it did not take the engagement/interference of the serpent to "have His image" formed in man (they were not partners). Besides, Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; ....... paints a different picture and Gen 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. Concludes it, God could not have considered it all as being very good upon evaluation if the jewel of the crown was defective!
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The saviors mission was to pay for our sins, be crucified and give up his life for us, yet it was the adversary that put it into the hearts of his critics and opposition to have him put to death.
God is omniscient and knows the actions all players will take under a given set of circumstances. Just because God knows the end from the beginning and therefore the actions of all actors does not make him responsible for or partnered with those who have evil designs. Evil designs however can be put to good purpose though and bring about positive ends.
The evil designs of the plotting political elite in Jerusalem enabled the most sublime and far reaching act of all of this creation namely, the Atonement of Jesus Christ
In as much as i agree with the drift of thought in your reply, I disagree with the previous inference that it took the fall of man & the consequent knowledge of good and evil to bring man into the likeness of God as He intended when man was created.
I know all things without exception all together respond to God and He cannot be blindsided nor taken for surprise. After all He made all things and all things are sustained by Him and without Him was nothing made that was made.