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Missouri Governor Jay Nixon repeatedly denied knowing anything about Missouri illegally sharing its citizens private CCW information with the federal government, even after his own head of Missouri Highway Patrol contradicted him in a public hearing.

Were the Remonstrants Faithful to Arminius? For the past four hundred years, the doctrinal battle between Arminians and Calvinists has raged on. This battle had its formal beginning with the issuance of the Canons of the Synod of Dordecht in 1619. These canons were the result of a national synod held in Dordrecht by the Dutch Reformed Church, and attended by delegates from Reformed churches throughout all of Europe, for the purpose of addressing the Five Articles of Remonstrance issued by followers of Jacobius Arminius in 1610, one year after Arminius’ death. The articles addressed point on which the Remonstrants...

Dort Pitted Calvinists against Arminians. by the Staff or associates of Christian History Institute. James (Jacob) Arminius was uneasy with some of the teachings that had come to be identified with Calvinism. Did God really choose some men to be damned before he created them? Was Christ's death only intended for those who would finally be saved? Does God exercise his sovereignty so fully that man has no choice in his own salvation? Does regeneration come first and then repentance? As the professor of theology at Leyden, James had promised to teach only those things which conformed to the confessions...