A few years ago Neal Punt wrote his book, Unconditional Good News. Last year I wrote a thesis for Westminster Theological Seminary in which I criticized this book because I believe that in it Punt contradicts the Scriptures and the creeds of the Christian Reformed Church. Since Neal Punt continues to try to stir up […]

The teachings of Universalism are not new. For many years we have been urged to take the teachings of Scripture on the salvation of all men more seriously. We have been told for many years that when Scripture uses such terms as “all men,” “world,” “all,” or “every one” that we must take that at full […]

Having read Neal Punt’s book, Unconditional Good News, I have so many question marks and disagreements, it’s hard to know where to begin in trying to analyze and critique it. (As an aside, I find it hard to believe that Dr. A. C. DeJong, who wrote a foreword to the book, should be able to […]

Rev. Neal Punt is pastor of the Evergreen Park Christian Reformed Church, Evergreen Park, Illinois. Recently (1980) he authored a 169 page book published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Unconditional Good News with the subtitle, Toward an Understanding of Biblical Universalism ($6.95). By request, I am addressing myself to an evaluation […]