Unbelievable? Can Logic Prove Christianity? Joshua Sijuwade v Amos Wollen hosted By John Nelson
Mar 5, 2026
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Omnisubjectivity Makes Incarnation Philosophically Plausible
- Joshua Sijuwade argues a priori reasoning can imply incarnation by combining omnisubjectivity with emotions as bodily perceptions.
- If God must grasp first-person emotional states and emotions require bodies, a divine assumption of a body (incarnation) follows.
Scattered Event Analogy For Eternal Incarnation
- Joshua uses the 'scattered event' analogy to explain incarnation: divine willing is eternal but completed across temporal events like a shooting sequence.
- This defends how an eternal divine decision can culminate in a historical birth of Jesus without temporal priority.
Generic Incarnation Doesn't Equal Christian Particularity
- Amos Wallen objects that a generic a priori argument for some incarnation needn't increase the probability of Christianity's specific historical claim about Jesus of Nazareth.
- Showing mere possibility or generic incarnation leaves the particularity of Palestine/Nazareth unexplained.
