(August 14, 2014 at 8:54 am)czúzyt ylgájla Wrote: How important are the epistles to Christians?
Will a bible study group make reading the bible easier? (although they're not available in Libya for obvious reasons).
Paul's letters are critical, especially to Protestant theology. But you can probably get most of the main points from Galatians and Romans (in that order; Galatians is simpler).
If you read those two letters and perhaps read Tom Wrights commentaries, which are written for anyone to read, on Romans and Galatians, then you'll go a reasonable way to understanding the main points of Protestant theology.
If you want to read the whole bible I would suggest a 'one year bible' which takes 15-20 minutes a day for a year.
