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If God does not will and desire their salvation, then why even offer it to them, except to show them how depraved they really are and let them store up for themselves wrath in the Day of Judgement?

I have no idea what you are trying to argue.

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Are you arguing from those Scriptures that God will save all men, because He wills it? I truly do not know where you are going.

Have you ever read about Balaam or Jonah? Perhaps Jonah was just into the "Six flags" version of how to get to Nineveh.

LOL. No. God can, in extraordinary circumstances impose His will, but he doesn't make a habit of it. You do understand the idea of miracles being extraordinary events where God reaches into His creation, right?

Os, in that way I can say that God "wills," or perhaps "prefers" is a better word, that all men be saved. But He does not impose that will.

Is this your intrepretation of the above cited verses?

Yep. It would have to be, or else I would be a universalist.

" God can, in extraordinary circumstances impose His will, but he doesn't make a habit of it."

Wow, I certainly am happy that He made an exception to the rule in my case!!

Without His intervening imposition of His will upon me, I would have never trusted Him. After all, I was "dead in my trespasses and sins", and hated Him with all my heart, wanting to place myself at the center of the universe.