What an IGNORANT statement.
Do you even understand what "Apostate" means??
An apostate is a person who repudiates a once deeply-held belief. A person who turns his back on his beliefs. In other words - you CANNOT be an "Apostate" if you were NOT born again to begin with.
Actually you can.
There's two ways I like to properly look at scripture..
1. Through context
2. Through words
Take Luke 8:13 for example. Luke uses the word "believe" (as in believing in vain 1 Cor 15:1-2), but Matthew and Mark use the words "trouble and persecution". Paul also uses the words "trouble and persecution" but in the opposite way. This tells me that Matthew, Mark and Luke are referencing apostates, those who were never born again, those who never had the root of salvation which is Jesus Christ himself and the indwelling Holy Spirit.
Matt 13:21 But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When
trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.
Mark 4:17 But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When
trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.
Luke 8:13 The seeds on rocky ground are those who hear the word and receive it with joy, but they have no root.
They believe for a season, but in the time of testing, they fall away.
Rom 8:35, 38-39 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall
trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Blessings.