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    Supports→It would be incoherent for a person who believes a deductive cosmological argument for God's existence is sound to then deny that God exists.

    If someone believes that a deductive cosmological argument (proof) for God's existence is sound, then accepting the soundness of the argument logically commits them to accepting the conclusion that God exists.

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    Logically commits(as used in logic and reasoning)
    If you accept something as true, you're forced by the rules of logic to accept whatever follows from it—you can't reasonably reject the conclusion without rejecting what you already agreed to.
    cosmological argument(Swinburne's general characterization)
    An argument that the fact that there is a universe needs explaining, typically by appeal to a cause or ground outside the universe
    deductive argument(Classification of argument structures for miracle claims)
    An argument in which, given the truth of the premises, the conclusion must also be true.

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    Swinburne is correct that if someone believes that a deductive cosmological argument (proof) for God’s existence is sound, then it would be incoherent for that same person to then deny that God exists. However, in their respective proofs defenders of the deductive cosmological arguments make a claim about incoherence, namely, that it would be contradictory for the same person to affirm the premises of the argument and to claim that God or a personal necessary being does not exist. And they believe both that the respective premises have the intuitiveness that Swinburne deems necessary and that ...

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