India Love revealed that her comments regarding homosexuality in an online video post were strictly about her best friend, CJ, whom she has known for more than 10 years and who is homosexual, and that she takes full responsibility for discussing the same publicly during a Twitch livestream.
In the post in which she discussed her opinions on the matter regarding homosexuals, which got many people into a frenzy, Love pointed to a passage from the Bible, where homosexuality is mentioned as one of those sins that may lead a person to eternal damnation and inability to inherit the kingdom of God.
At another point, while commenting on the previous post about the subject on a livestream, Love clarified that she was referring only to her friend CJ and explained that they discuss it openly and go to church together.
“For one, when I was speaking to my friend about my friend in the hair salon in that exact clip, I was speaking solely about CJ, okay?” Love said. “CJ has been my best friend, I don’t even know, for over 10 years now.”
Love explained further that they are both Christians who believe in all passages of the Bible, which separates them from other believers who disbelieve some of it.
“CJ and I both are Christians who go by the Bible,” she said. “There’s a lot of Christians who are Christian but don’t believe in a lot of things in the Bible and things of that sort. So when I’m speaking on this subject, which is homosexuality, about my friend who is CJ to my friend, I’m specifically speaking on him.”
The entire discussion was triggered when a friend from the salon asked Love how her friend CJ was, and it got wayward; hence, it shouldn’t have happened on a livestream at all.
“She asked me, ‘How is CJ?'” Love said. “I just rant and go on, and a thousand percent, that was not the place and time to speak on that. I would never; I should have never been on live having that conversation. I definitely take full accountability for that. It was not a conversation for live.”
Nonetheless, she stood by the statement as well, since she believed the discussion was true regarding Bible teachings.
“However, I was speaking the truth, and the truth to me as the Christian woman that I am is according to the Bible,” she said. “And in the Bible, it says that along with a long list of other things that, you know, if you do these things, you will not inherit the kingdom of God according to the Lord.”
As noted in the discussion, the statement reminds us of the passage in the sixth chapter of 1 Corinthians. Here, Paul lists the sins that can prevent a person from entering God’s kingdom.
“And that specific time that I was speaking on it, I’m speaking on my friend and his sexual preference, I guess you can say,” Love said.
According to Love, nothing in the post could surprise her friend CJ, since they had many discussions about the subject.
“And what you heard from CJ in this clip, this is nothing new,” she said. “Nothing in that clip that I said, I didn’t say to CJ. Everything that I said in that clip and more, I say to CJ; we speak to each other. There is no fear in love.”
She said that her love for the friend did not change.
“I love my friend to death,” Love said. “I know we go to church together. I know he loves the Lord and believes in the Bible and the word and what it says through and through.”
She emphasized that her statements came from Scripture, rather than her own judgments.
“And according to the Bible, and that’s why I feel like I’m not here to, you know, I don’t know. So I, how do I say this? I spoke on the Bible and what it says,” she said. “This is not what I said is not something I’ve just pulled out of the midair and made it up where according to my own words, if people don’t do this, that and third, they’re not going to heaven. No, I spoke on specific specifics according to the Bible.”
Love also addressed accusations that she herself won’t make it to heaven because of all her sins.
“And I keep touching this because, and granted, I want everybody to know I am not perfect. Everybody knows that already,” she said. “Like there’s a lot of like, ‘Oh, but you’re not getting there either.’ Like I absolutely am going to go to heaven for sure.”
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