The question of how an individual is saved is paramount to salvation. Is a person saved by the "blood of Christ" or by Jesus' vicarious propitiatory sacrifice? The answer to this question is decided by what a person believes Scripture means by being redeemed "with the precious blood of Christ (1 Pet 1:18-19." Does this statement mean that a person is redeemed literally by the physical blood shed or does the statement figuratively refer to Christ's...