As a logician by background, I can accept doctrines by faith and believe them, but sooner or later I want them to make sense logically. It was only when I began to meditate on the truth about the soul being in the blood that this concept became vivid and logical to me. For years I had believed in the atonement—that Jesus was the offering for sin. I knew His offering provided forgiveness for all humanity. But then I began to meditate on how the soul of the Son of God was given on