No. An apostate is believing or preaching a perverted Christian doctrine which is not biblical. The gnostics were an example. Teaching or believing that homosexual sex is OK for a Christian, or that there are other ways to salvation than believing in Christ are two current examples of apostacy being taught in "progressive" churches. (There is no such thing as a "progressive" Christian.)
>>There is no such thing as a “progressive” Christian.<<
I took that quote to mean Christians who politically were progressive (i.e liberal) rather than non-biblical Christians... I’ll go back and look again.
“An apostate is believing or preaching a perverted Christian doctrine which is not biblical. The gnostics were an example. Teaching or believing that homosexual sex is OK for a Christian, or that there are other ways to salvation than believing in Christ are two current examples of apostacy being taught in “progressive” churches.”
Not so. Technically an apostate is someone who professes a faith and then later reneges on his or her decision. The best known apostate was Julian the apostate, a Roman emperor who attempted to restore the traditional Greek Roman pantheon in the Roman Empire back in the middle fourth century. Curiously enough, he wasn’t technically an apostate - theres no evidence he ever was a Christian in the first place!
The technical term for someone who professes a faith but does not support its basic core doctrines (such as a Christian saying homosexuality is “ok”, or there are other ways to salvation than through Christ) is “heretic”.