the fifth article drafted by its leaders in 1610. Sometime between 1610, and the official proceeding of the Synod of Dort (1618), the Remonstrants became fully persuaded in their minds that the Scriptures taught that a true believer was capable of apostasizing. They formalized their views in "The Opinion of the Remonstrants" (1618). Points three and four in the fifth article read: True believers can fall from true faith and can fall into such sins as cannot be consistent with true and justifying faith; not only is it possible for this to happen, but it even happens frequently. True believers are able to fall through their own fault into shameful and atrocious deeds, to persevere and to die in them; and therefore finally to fall and to perish. Reformed Arminian scholar Robert Picirilli remarks: "Ever since that early period, then, when the issue was being examined again, Arminians have taught that those who are truly saved need to be warned against apostasy as a real and possible danger." Important treatments regarding apostasy have come from the following Arminians: Thomas Olivers (1725–1799); Richard Watson (1781–1833); Thomas O. Summers (1812–1882); Albert Nash (1812–1900); and William Burt Pope (1822–1903). Christian denominations that affirm the possibility of apostasy The following Christian denominations affirm their belief in the possibility of apostasy in either their articles or statements of faith, or by way of a position paper. Anabaptist Churches Mennonite Church Missionary Church Eastern Orthodox Churches Evangelical Congregational Church General Baptists General Association of General Baptists National Association of Free Will Baptists Lutheran Churches Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod Methodist Churches (Wesleyan-Arminianism) Evangelical Wesleyan Church The United Methodist Church Free Methodist Church The Salvation Army Church of the Nazarene Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Pentecostal Churches Assemblies of God Quakerism Evangelical Friends Church - Eastern Region Restorationist Churches Churches of Christ Roman Catholic Church Theologians who affirmed the possibility of apostasy Augustine, Aquinas, and Martin Luther Theologians such as Augustine, Aquinas and Luther believed that some people who did not receive a gift of perseverance can lose the grace of baptismal regeneration and justification. Augustine (354–430) believed in a specific gift of perseverance given to some baptized Christians. Augustine did not believe that someone can in this life know with infallible certitude that he is in fact among the elect, and that he will finally persevere. Thus, those who didn't receive the gift of perseverance can reject justification