WHY God saw fit to leave the splendor and glory of heaven to experience life as a man?

Answer 1

It wasn't on a whim that man's Creator, Jesus Christ [John 1:1-3], did this. It was His Father's plan and command to do so from the beginning.

Mankind, created in God's image to one day be born [re-born, actually] as His Children into His future Immortal Family had to learn about selfish evil in order for him to Truly learn about Selfless Love.

Mankind, made of flesh and blood and guided by his easily-deceived five physical senses, is utterly susceptible to the selfish, greedy, jealous, envious, lustful, hateful ways of Satan and his demons; the angels who first sinned in the beginning of creation before man was made.

And when God put man on the refurbished earth that was once destroyed by the casting down of Satan and his angels upon it [see Rev.12:9]... that "spirit realm" [Eph.6:12] was already there upon it, to receive them... and to test them.

The first two humans failed the test, of course, because they were... and still are... primarily governed by the physical pulls and temptations of the flesh... not by the "spirit" within them [see Zech.12:1].

And "sin" began to rule on earth ['sin' is the transgression or breaking of God's Ten Commandments; His Divine Laws of Love that reveal and decree how to Love and Respect our Creator and one another -- I John 3:4]. Mankind literally "sold himself to the Devil" as the saying goes; by obeying and worshiping the "lawless" ways of "that old Serpent" [see Rev.12:9] -- and he sold himself and all of his future generations to the ultimate penalty for "sin": DEATH.

Enter: the time in God's plan for man's Creator to come to earth as a "man" to... as a man with all of man's physical failings, to DEFEAT "that old Serpent" at his "spiritual game": by quoting and Living by the Scriptures, the Word of God -- God's Bread and Nourishment that feeds the spirit in man. That develops Righteous Character in those who are "Obedient" to those Life-giving Words:

"...'the flesh profiteth nothing: the Words that I speak unto you, THEY ARE SPIRIT, and THEY ARE LIFE.'" (John 6:63 KJV)

Jesus [man's Creator] did come in the flesh to "experience life as a man" -- but not for that express purpose. He came to "overcome" all the pulls of Satan's world and those of the flesh, to DEFEAT that "spirit being" and his demons who trapped man into bondage to his wicked, evil ways... the ways of death.

"Who in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto Him [His Father in heaven] that was able to save Him from death, and was heard in that He feared; though He were a Son, yet HE LEARNED OBEDIENCE BY THE THINGS WHICH HE SUFFERED; and being made Perfect, He became the Author of Eternal Salvation unto ALL THEM THAT OBEY HIM..." (Heb.1:7-9 KJV).

In other words... our Creator had to come down to earth "as a man," to defeat [depose and replace as the world's King and future Ruler] the author of death, Satan, by overcoming the flesh through the Power of the Spirit [by which all men must also overcome the god of this world]. Christ thus became the Source by which man is now able to do so; not by serving Satan [and thus disobeying God; sinning], but by, through a man's Faith in His Divine shed Blood, the LORD's redeeming men back [buying or purchasing man back] from their former master... and becoming the "new servants" of their Creator with a "new least on Life" [Eternal Life], which God has intended for them from the beginning.

Christ "saw fit" to do this... to Obey the Commands of His Father in heaven [even though the "flesh and blood" part of Him did NOT want to do it], to reveal to man His Divine example of SELFLESS LOVE, GRACE and MERCY. The big lesson man has to learn to comply with, learn and live:

"...'Father, if thou be willing, REMOVE THIS CUP FROM ME: nevertheless NOT MY WILL, but THINE, BE DONE.' And there appeared an angel unto Him from heaven, strengthening Him." (Luke 22:42-43 KJV)

That's why God saw fit to leave the Splendor and Glory of heaven to experience life as a man. It's because of His Selfless, Divine Nature. To show His special creation, man, created in His image, the other side of the evil life he chose: Love, Respect, Mercy, Selfless Giving, Care and Concern for others that Lives and Thrives as the flowing current of a River, beyond the self. The real things in life that produce Pure Joy and Happiness. To gladly and cheerfully "do for others" and not living the vain existence of temporary self-love, which turns inwardly, where it stagnates, festers and dies.

God did it [and is still working on the completion of His plan] to bring His creation to it successful end: to live Life Eternal with Him as the Children of His future Immortal Family -- with the horrifying experience of sin and evil "under their spiritual belts," as it were... and having come away from it all Trusting in Him to overcome it, that they might "reject" the evil lessons they learned... and "choose" the "GOOD" lessons He taught them.