Don't cite one set of scriptures without citing others that appear to state the opposite. They all go together. Make sure you know what Greek word or phrase is translated "pass away", and make sure you read Ecclesiastes 1:4. Claiming that God is going to simply wipe out his own creation and replace it totally with something else is implying that he created it in vain; he did not. The "melt(ing)" mentioned in 2 Peter does not refer to a total destruction of the earth, which Ecclesiastes 1:4 says will abide forever.
>> Did you know that the Bible does not even mention the end of the physical universe? <<
What a stupid lie!
2Pe 3:10
¶ 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.
2Pe 3:12
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
>> “Claiming that God is going to simply wipe out his own creation and replace it totally with something else is implying that he created it in vain” <<
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No that is also a lie.
He created the material, temporal, universe as a part of his plan, and his plan clearly calls for all things material and temporal to cease when that which is perfect is come.