What's the Point of the New Testament?

The roman world ran on slavery the way our modern world runs on electricity. The greek physician galen estimated that one third of the population were slaves. And then along came the church, instructed by paul's letters, and potentially the greatesth social outragea social outrage caused by the early church in ancient days. But it would be a mistake for us just to throw out the ideas altogether. We swim in waters of an ever evolving, or maybe just ever changing, cultural climate.