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Book I: The Apprentice
Jacobus: A Eunuch's Faith
Jacobus’ father contracted him to relatives in Sicily as an apprentice learning the shipping business of his Jewish family during the first century Roman Empire at fourteen, the legal age of manhood. Being what the Greeks called a “natural eunuch,” he found himself living with two Carthaginian “cut eunuch” slaves, who became his lovers.
As his apprenticeship progressed, the family recognized his natural leadership abilities surpassed his age. By sixteen he developed a strategy to enter the India trade which succeeded beyond expectations. He also become the second “spouse” of his cousin, the director of Aetna Shipping. Everything in his life changed when one night his brother-in-law, Simon of Cyrene, was awakened by a terrifying vision that triggered some of the relatives to bring Simon to Jerusalem for Passover with their Judeo-Indian partners.
Jacobus: A Eunuch's Faith
Book 2: India Connection
12 Jewish members of an international trading partnership from Sicily to India are present in Jerusalem for Passover and fi nd themselves at Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. Preparing for an additional trading mission Jacobus meets the Apostle Thomas in front of a Synagogue in Alexandria, Egypt and offers to take him to India on his ship. Decades later, Jacobus decides to return home to Sicily on his pet elephant. Reaching Jerusalem a year later, he arrives on a hill overlooking Jerusalem only to fi nd the city totally destroyed, with thousands of bodies piled up around the destroyed city walls with hundreds of dead and dying victims of Roman crucifixion all along the roads.
Jacobus: A Eunuch's Faith
Book 3: Life's Decisions
Since the decision by the United States Supreme Court, which declared same-sex marriage legal, there has been a more intensive
bombardment of gays and issues related to their rights within the public debate. Emotionally, the Court’s decision did little to extinguish
the flames of the firestorm ignited by the Stonewall Uprising in New York City in 1969.
Those of us who . . . through no fault of our own . . . have been ridiculed, shunned, and even told we were unwanted in our home
churches, became incognito believers in exile. We have had no choice regarding our sexual identity. We were born gay. Even Jesus recognized this biological phenomenon. He declared to his disciples that ‘born eunuchs’ were not attracted to females and it would be better not to marry them (Matthew. 19:12). In the history of the United States, it was only during slavery and the Civil Rights Movement that one minority of our population has been so targeted like homosexuals have been targeted recently.
