"The Bible speaks of a future where the present order will be destroyed
and God will make a new heavens and earth where there will be no more
suffering and pain—the former things will have passed away (But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 2 Peter 3:10).
Q: But if God ‘created’ things much as we see them, with death and
suffering intrinsic to the created order, which the previously mentioned
views of Genesis suppose, why would God want to destroy the existing
order and create a new one?
---It also undermines the teaching about the future restoration (Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. Acts 3:21)—‘restoration’
means return to a former state, so are Christians supposed to be
encouraged by a return to millions of years of death and suffering?" CMI