Presumably if you were reading as a Christian then that meant you might have had reason to actually pay attention to all Paul's waffling in the epistles? I don't think I envy you that; that was definitely one of the bits I was relieved to be able to skip over.

Yes, I can't see myself sitting down for a leisurely reread either. To help avoid the need, I took notes as I went through, in the hope that they'd contain most of the things I might reasonably want to remember later. (Though even if those notes fail me I don't imagine I should have to reread the whole thing; it ought to be just a case of finding a particular passage and rereading that.)

Ah, now, a lot of his waffle I got to hear in church, so I felt okay about skimming. Also, a lot of what he wrote annoyed me beyond belief, so again, skimming.