I am 17 years of age I feel like my parents don’t love me much, I try to show them but they don’t seem to me to care. In looking for affection I think of having a mate, who would love me, is this a sin to God? Am I allowed to be in a relationship at this age?

In Matthew, Jesus talked about ‘turning the other cheek’. Unfortunately, this has lead to abuses by those who would excuse and engage in abuse of their spouse in the name of ‘submission’. (Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands…). In domestic abuse cases, does the Bible suggest that a wife allow such actions or does she have recourse to defend herself?

Do you believe that the time of tribulation is predominantly to bring Israel to the knowledge of Jesus? This is what I have always heard.

My father has been the most distant man in my whole life after he and my mother divorced when I was a small child. Over the years he has broken promise after promise. He even used my credit history to obtain utilities during the ten years he never contacted me. Of course he denied everything, but I know he did it. Am I being sinful by cutting all ties and disowning my him after he has failed to come clean?

You have written more than once on how teachers of the Word will be judged more strictly because of the positions they hold. If those in leadership positions are not necessarily interpreting and teaching correct doctrine, but have accepted the penalty paid by Jesus Christ on the cross and are themselves saved, how are they judged differently from those that follow them?

I’m newly saved and born again. I have already raised my family, so my children, now all in their twenties, were not raised knowing and understanding what they needed to know to insure their salvation. I am consumed with guilt and worry over that. Would God really cause these good people, my children, to suffer for eternity because they’ve not yet come to understand? That doesn’t seem right to me and I struggle daily with it. Their lack of understanding is my failing, not theirs.

I have been living with my girlfriend for the past year and have had a relationship for 3 years. We live together as man and wife but with no official ceremony. A friend(former) and I recently quarreled over the status of my relationship and he pointed out in Corinthians the prohibition against fornication. Ironically I am now inclined to agree with my former friend that I should be officially married to the woman I live with, but I still fail to see why God would care more about a ceremony and a band of gold rather than honest love and commitment between one man and one woman. I would be grateful for your perspective on this matter. If I abide in this relationship the Bible states I will not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. Does this mean that even though I believe I will go to Hell instead?

Mankind’s rebellion is through evil in the world, although Adam and Eve had no sin when they were created. It took Satan to introduce a rebellious thought. However, in the millennium Satan will be bound so there should be no evil. Am I correct?

I know your position of the New Jerusalem orbiting the earth because of it’s size, but there must be some connection to the earth because of Rev. 21:24. “The kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it.” How does a mortal human enter a glorified city?

What was the status of the Old Testament as far as being compiled at the time of Christ? Were the 39 books already chosen? Was everyone aware of the prophecies Christ was fulfilling as He was doing them? For instance, Psalm 22, could someone have been watching the crucifixion and had access to that piece of scripture as it was happening?