Debate: Would a benevolent God send people to hell?
Side: Yes, they rejected him

Your argument assumes that anyone believes a benevolent God would subject someone to indescribable torment simply because they held to a false belief. No one, including most Jews, Christians, and Muslims, believes anything like that. It's not what you believe that matters to a God who is perfect, unconditional love, but whether or not you return that love.You may never have experienced the torment there is in being loved by someone you don't, but I have, and I can tell you from personal experience it's real, it's constant, and you eventually get to a place where you can't stand being around that person any more. Their concern for you becomes, to you, an indictment of your inability to love them in return; almost an accusation of your own flawed character, until you begin to feel, without a word being spoken between you, as if your every breath is on trial in some invisible courtroom in front of some invisible jury of loving beings. And that's just being loved unconditionally by a seriously flawed human being like ourselves! Multiply that torment and that hatred you begin to feel by the perfection of the Divine character, and you just might catch a glimpse of Hell.I'm a Bible believing Christian and I don't believe that God casts people into Hell in any sense except the one I've just sketched above. Christians believe God is not only perfectly loving, but also that God is omnipresent, which entails, at least to critically thinking Christians, that God is every bit as much "present" in Hell as He is in Heaven, and this concept only strengthens the idea that it is the experience of God in a much more full and complete fashion that produces either Heaven or Hell for anyone, rather than the idea that God sits as a Judge of the "Law" who hands down some verdict as to what one has inproperly believed in one's life, and then throws them into a place of torment and suffering.As for God's decision to create a world full of people who never return His unconditional love, and thus end up in Hell as He gathers all into Himself at the end of the ages (or the end of each person's life here, as the case may be), it seems to me that goodness demands choice, just as evil does, and that therefore regardless of God's omnipotence, it is simply beyond anything God can do to create a world in which no one ever goes morally wrong. For God to insure any particular person never went morally wrong it would require that God control that person's judgments and beliefs; in short, their entire mind. But if it's our free choices that are required for anything we do to be a moral act, then it follows necessarily that God cannot control our minds in any fashion capable of insuring no one ever goes morally wrong. From this it also follows necessarily, it seems to me, that it's not up to God how much evil there is in the world, or who is doing it. It's up to us. They are our choices, made with our minds uncoerced by God, as they must be to qualify as moral in the first place. God's perfect knowledge of those choices doesn't cause them or control them, nor could it and our judgments still be considered moral or immoral. Reality causes knowledge of it; not the other way around. And for all anyone knows this world is the best world an omnipotent, omniscient, perfectly loving God could create. It seems unjust in the extreme to assail God's very existence based on the truth of a premise the truth of which no human being could possibly know in this life.