POSTING No. 39

          The essay “Election and the Universal Offer of the Gospel” is being very well received. Testamentum Imperium [You Can Google It], an International Theological Journal, assigned this topic to me three years ago. It was due and submitted by March 11, 2009.

          T.I. has selected this essay for publication in their Volume II that will be published sometime during 2009..  Most of their readers would not be acquainted with my work.  Therefore I summarized nearly everything I have written about Biblical Inclusivism as background material for this essay.

          Whether you like or dislike what I have been writing you should have a copy of this booklet that is gaining acceptance in the evangelical community. This is the quickest and most interesting way to become knowledgeable about the general subject of Biblical Inclusivism.

Cordially, Neal Punt

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Endorsements of Punt’s Work:

Dr. Lewis Smedes: “I want to tell you that I admire what you are doing and am thankful for it. You are rescuing us from dogmatic determinism and saving us from presumptuous universalism. Your mission is needed and can only do us much good.”

Dr. Richard J. Mouw: “I have never been able to embrace the kind of universalism that teaches that all human beings will be saved in the end. That sort of theology is simply impossible for me to square with the biblical message. But I do want to leave a lot of theological room for the mysterious ways of a God who has promised that where sin abounds grace much more abounds. Punt has helped me to stay within the bounds of biblical orthodoxy while relying on the promises of an abundant divine generosity.”

Dr. Henry Stob: “This book is stimulating, instructive, and true to the gospel. Neal Punt is to be commended for opening up the Scriptures in a new and exciting way.”

Dr. F. F. Bruce: “I read your book What’s Good About the Good News? with great interest. Your position is very much my own. Your exposition of the subject is thoroughly in line with the insight: ‘Admittedly Christ is much more powerful to save than Adam was to ruin.’

I wish your work a wide circulation; it will stimulate much fresh thought on this important subject.”

Dr. Lester DeKoster: “Pastor Neal Punt has skillfully shifted the focus of a long disputed doctrine in his What’s Good About The Good News? He has made what is too often speculative theology into a pastoral admonition applicable to all. Salvation is validated in obedience to the will of God; this is the fruit of election. Disobedience is the deliberate and willful rejection of God’s will. Persistent disobedience finds its ultimate consequence in damnation.

“Except for such as persistently defy God’s will, the Bible teaches that Christ’s atoning sacrifice is for all. Thus in Punt’s hands the old election/reprobation tension is resolved into a positive call for the truly Christian life.”

Dr. Edward Wm. Fudge: "Are people lost unless saved, or saved unless lost? Neal Punt offers compelling scriptural evidence for the second statement.  This simple (but profound) shift in vision magnifies God's grace, highlights Christ's atonement, encourages evangelism, helps bridge the gap between Calvinists and Arminians and generates an authentic welcoming spirit toward those who do not yet know Christ.  Biblical Inclusivism is a study that will enrich your heart and mind."

Pastor Robert J. Wieland: “This Good News premise comes across from Punt’s pages like a fresh wind that almost take one’s breath away. But the Biblical evidence which he marshals is impressive, and strongly suggests that the apostles turned their world upside down with a Gospel that contained considerably better Good News than our version of it convey today.

“Here is a book that will challenge keen theologians; but it is so clearly and simply written that it will also warm the hearts of lay readers. That too is very good news.”