This solution needs only a few Bible verses to be believed literally, but no one has done that … God's people have abandoned them in favor of other Biblical truths, instead of believing both (in tension maybe).
Lenses Book 2 describes these ideas more fully.
Lenses Book 2: Chapter 1 addresses 1, 2, 3, and 4.
Lenses Book 2: Chapters 3 - 10 explain the important answer to question 5.
Lenses Book 2: Chapters 11 and 12 describe how to deal with the evil in our world.
Lenses Book 2: Chapter 14 describes the one place that is safe from evil, while we live on the earth.