Jesus said, "I go to prepare a place for you."
What specific preparation is being carried out by Jesus at this very moment in time while human beings continue to suffer? And, where is that place?
Don't forget that Jesus was supposed to have returned before ALL the desciples died. So the promise of Jesus was false. Read the New Testament carefully.
"With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day."
Really?
Does that mean that suffering from cancer for one day is equivalent to suffering from cancer for, say, 20 years? Your 'God' doesn't have anything to worry about, but humans do. The statement might apply to an invisible fictional 'God', but commonsense dictates that the statement is nonsense as it applies to human affairs. Human life has a limited time span. No human lives forever.
" ... not wanting anyone to perish"
That's disingenuous. Based on the Christian view of the world, the 'all-knowing 'God' has set-up the world so that there are winners and losers. So much for the so-called 'gift of life'. According to Christianity, many will have that 'gift' taken away from them. And, that being the case, what is so special about this 'God'? Nothing. All 'Gods' are created in the minds of humans.
Saved?
Saved from what? Saved from a world of suffering that no-one asked to be born into? And, then blamed and scapegoated by a 'God' who boasts of 'his' power compared to the relatively weak human being that 'he' created. The 'saved' argument does not stand up to scrutiny.
As stated before: Don't forget that Jesus was supposed to have returned before ALL the desciples died. So the promise of Jesus was false.
So strange that the so-called Christian 'God' regarded mankind as 'his' crowning glory, and yet the same 'God' is a violent tyrant and warmonger in the Old testament, then 'his' character is softened in the New Testament. The 'God' of the Bible is like Jekyll and Hyde.
Why didn't your 'God' use 'his' all-knowing miraculous powers to 'create' mankind perfectly? How can a crowning glory become imperfect IF 'God' 'himself' is perfect? He then turns around and blames what 'he' imperfectly created?
It's like an author creating a character in a story, then blaming the character for being the thing that the author created. The character cannot create itself. If human beings could create themselves, they would have done a better job than any 'God' in any 'so-called holy book.
The overall Christian perspective on life is ridiculous and flies in the face of reality.
No, it didn't have to be this way: your 'God' didn't have to push the button and create a world of misery with the need for all life forms to struggle for survival.
But, of course, your 'God' does not exist in physical reality because 'God' is an idea. There's the Christian 'God', the Muslim 'God', and the 'God' of the Jews. All three use different 'holy' books, which clearly indicate that there are different ideas as to who / what 'God' is.
It's important to repeat:
'God' is an idea.