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We were made in his image, not as clones of him. When we were made, he also gave us free will, something that he had not given the angels created before us. And since we were given free will, and created in God's image, and not given all of his knowledge, all it took was a simple lie to cause the first sin. In addition to that, using your logic, we should all be able to create whatever we want whenever we want, including universes. Since we cannot, we aren't created as carbon-copies of God, and thus are not perfect.

Proof by contradiction. :-)

The way I see it... and this is my attempt to explain the whole idea of evil/sin...
In order for God to create free will, which is the only way He could really have a love relationship with us, He had to create a choice that was wrong, or against His will, as well as a choice that was right. If the only option was obeying Him, there would be no choice and therefore no free will. Satan had free will, i.e., the choice to either follow God, or abandon God and set himself up as the supreme being. He chose wrong, and later guided Eve and Adam into choosing incorrectly as well. The sin in both cases was the desire to be equal to or greater than God... and we still get messed up by this now; we don't want God running our lives, because we're convinced we can do it just fine on our own. Just like Satan and Adam and Eve, we want to be our own God, even though all we really end up doing is messing ourselves (and the world) up. :-P