movement.101 My response is terse: if he did, Christians did not listen well and neither did Paul for he simply does not see slavery in itself as a moral problem. To extend the metaphor, if Paul was planting seeds no one watered them. Such a viewpoint of planting seeds as the beginning of a new movement admittedly accords both with modern Christian beliefs as well as with social agendas. Yet, I am entirely unconvinced this was Paul’s agenda. Paul was not unafraid to speak his mind; on this issue