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

If God were also just, yes. If "evil" exists, and is defined as concern for the self, and good exists, and is defined as concern for the other, then it is clear that evil and good are complementary concepts. Benevolence is only required to make a way for the evil men do to be escaped by them if and when they turn from doing evil, and, at least according to the Christian faith that is exactly what God has done through His Son, Jesus. He has shown men that His love is unconditional, thus removing any rational mistrust of Him by men, thus opening the "narrow way" in which men can come to and experience God.That said, everyone who has ever been unfortunate enough to have been in a relationship where they are loved selflessly and unconditionally by another they do not love at all, knows first hand the torment that there is for them in such a one-sided love affair. The other's love becomes an indictment; a constant accusation that there is something wrong with you issued in an inner voice you often recognize as your own. Hearing that voice over and over again eventually changes your simple lack of love for the other to a constant annoyance with them, and then finally to hatred. Now suppose this hypothetical "other" was a perfect being. The inner torment you'd feel in rejecting their unconditional love by failing to return it would be multiplied by the difference between human frailty and fallibility and perfection; i.e,, beyond the mind's ability to imagine. We could not possibly hide our rationalization for our failure to return their love behind our assumption they were flawed themselves, and their perfection would only serve to brighten the light exposing our own flaws until it was pure torment to continue seeing.Hell is not a place, but a state of mind in a person who consists in nothing but mind; i.e., a "spirit", at least in most theistic religions. If that mind is in torments, then that mind is in hell. If that mind is at peace, and experiencing the inner joy that comes with selflessly loving others, including it's Creator, then it is in heaven, and in the presence of the Ideal Being who is selfless, unconditional love. And clearly any being who is "God" would have to be selfless love, for surely we can agree that unconditional love is better than love granted only when some standard of conduct has been met, and that thus "God" must have the property "loving unconditionally" if God is the Ideal Being.Which brings us back to the quesstion, what if God isn't the Ideal Being? The answer to that is very simple. Since God is unquestionably at least possible, then there must logically exist some possible world in which such an Ideal Being exists. So, you might say, how does that tell us this world is that possible world? Easy. An Ideal Being that exists in one possible world must logically exist in all possible worlds, for clearly it is the case that any Ideal Being, to qualify as the Ideal Being must exist in all possible worlds as the Ideal Being in that world. Since this world is obviously a possible world, and since any Ideal Being that exists must exist as the Ideal Being in all possible worlds, it follows logically that the Ideal Being, who, as we've seen must essentially have the property "loving unconditionally", exists in this world. Further, it is God's unconditional love, that you've referred to as His benevolence that produces BOTH heaven and hell for mankind, depending on how they respond to that Love.