It doesn't matter if you don't believe in God, just assume there is one for the Hell of it... ;)
To me it seems that God must be an anarchist, and anarchy is the true natural law.
How Can You Know God's Intent?
Free Will. Just that. The rest of this is just filler... :)
There's only one possible reason for giving your creations free will: Because you want them to be independent. Independent people don't need rulers.
If the intent was to create slaves, then a robot-mentality would be much better.
What possible use could God have for slaves anyway? (I'm not talking about the Elohim/Anunnaki false gods - they apparently did need slaves.)
What would be the point in creating a whole Universe, filled with robot slaves doing pointless shit you just made up? It'd be just a vast clockwork trinket, a folly with no purpose. And it'd be just really fucking annoying, like those 'music-boxes' that play horrible jangly noises, or a train-set.
God's Slightly-Retarded Children
I think we're God's children, and this could be our pre-school... This is the place us widdle-kiddies go to learn basic manners before going to big-school.
That's perhaps one of the reasons why life's short. There's not that much to learn. Just the real basic morality stuff. It's not rocket-science.
Here is where we learn not to do all those disruptive things that would just annoy all the more mature students, like rape, murder, theft, lying, extortion, etc. etc...
Why would we even need these skills if we weren't intended to be freely interacting with others, un-ruled?
Would You Enslave Your Children?
If God's the 'heavenly father' and we're His children, then He could be expected to treat us the way we treat our own children - i.e. you give them space to grow up their own way, in their own time - so they can be themselves.
While our kids are small we protect them and lead them away from harm, but we don't expect our children to stay as kids forever. That'd be a nightmare. We want them to grow up and be our equals. (In fact most of us'd like our kids to grow up better than we are. Then they can look after us in our old age.)
It seems pretty clear that we're being trained by God to be able to handle our independence, so we can grow up and be our own rulers. God wants equals - not pets.
We all clearly have a lot of growing up to do, but there's only one possible direction given the fact we have free-will - to anarchy, and personal independence.
Thank you. :)