Thanks [everyone] for your encouragement and help. I know alot of the modern interpretations of the "apostacy" scriptures refer to the terrible, brash, hateful rejection to Christ as apposed to a "backslider" or even more subtle rejection.

But here is the real kicker, the thing that continually fuels my despair:

John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

Christian is at Interpreter's house. Interpreter is showing metaphorical scenes. One of them is about a hopeless man in a cage, please read after first paragraph:
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Please help me with this as it seems to be Bunyan's interpretation of the "apostacy" scriptures.

Note: Modern versions of Pilgrim's Progress call the man HOPELESS.