Can Philosophy Prove God Exists? Joshua Sijuwade on Evil, Trinity & Atonement

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🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Dr Joshua Sijuwade, teaching fellow in philosophy at the University of Birmingham, joins Luke Martin for a wide-ranging conversation on God, evil, the Trinity and the atonement. Joshua begins by explaining why he thinks the existence of God is the best explanation for a contingent, non-fundamental universe, and why he favours a fundamentality argument over some popular versions of the Kalam cosmological argument. He also reflects on his own dramatic conversion experience, his journey into theology and philosophy, and why apologetics still matters in a secular age. Later, Luke and Joshua discuss the problem of evil, the doctrine of the Trinity, whether Jesus is God, Orthodox theology, mystery, language about God, and how Christ’s life, death and resurrection bring reconciliation between humanity and God.

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0:29.0	hi welcome to premier unbelievable i'm luke mart. My guest today is Dr Joshua Sidhuadi.
0:41.3	Joshua is a teaching fellow in philosophy at the University of Birmingham,
0:45.3	and author of several books on topics in the philosophy of religion.
0:50.3	Josh, welcome to Premier Unbelievable.
0:52.3	Thank you very much for having me, Luke. Thank you.
0:55.6	Josh, does God exist?
0:59.0	Yes, he does. I really do believe we have good grounds,
1:02.7	evidential grounds for holding to the belief that there is God.
1:06.7	And we can go through those specific grounds,
1:09.1	but I can categorically say yes, I do believe that God does exist.
1:12.9	Okay, let's hear some of your arguments.
1:16.1	Yeah, so there's different ways to sort of approach this question,
1:19.5	because you have a simple claim that's been made.
1:22.6	There is a God.
1:23.6	And the ways in which you can analyze this are through different epistemic.
1:28.3	What I mean by epistemic is different ways we approach a statement with our minds.
1:32.8	We can approach it our priori, which is we can approach it without looking at any data.
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