Why Did God Bother?

The Return of the Prodigal Son, 1667/1670,
originally uploaded by leoncillo sabino.Spiritual teachings say that we are supposed to "find our way home again": that is, we must seek spiritual Truth and become enlightened. But if we started at "home", what was the point of sending us "down here" just so we can find our way back to where we started??

Perhaps one of the best explanations was given by Christ in his Parable of the Prodigal Son:

A father had two sons. The elder of these remained always ...