Yes, He does want to save us. I don't know why people don't understand that simple concept. As I have said many times, we are not discussing brain surgery, yet many remain oblivious to the truth.
One thing that stood out to me, when I came out of that works based religion I used to be in, was the incredible spiritual blindness I had. I simply did not see my lostness at all. It was utterly shocking, and scary, to think that for so long, I was a walking corpse, and didn't even know it. Such is the fiery, awful fate of those who follow spurious, Satanically inspired false religions. They have been warned. It's on them.
Under Catholicism, I NEVER expected to make it to heaven.
I wasn’t good enough and I knew it.
And I thought God was up there, perpetually angry at me, waiting for me to slip up and zap me unless I could appease Him somehow.
It was fear through and through. Not a shred of the concept of a LOVING heavenly Father who is interested in us and wants to be in relationship with us and cares enough about me as an individual that He’d even bother with me.
Then I was born again, and WOW, I felt like a new person inside.
I wonder why......
There IS a spiritual blindness at play. Yet, when the Holy Spirit lifts the veil and we can clearly see it, we realize the truth of the gospel and it is clear as day. What all our lives had been hidden is now completely logical and true. Until that happens, there will continue to be a shroud of confusion over the eyes of those who will not see. Seeing they see not and hearing they hear not lest they be saved.
(Matthew 13:14-17)
In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
“You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
For this people’s heart has become calloused;
they hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.
But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.
We keep trying to warn you not to fall into satanically false MAN MADE religions, but you do it anyway.....sigh.