Debate: Would a benevolent God send people to hell?
Side: Yes guilty people go to hell

Yes, of course. Love has an object, the beloved. When the beloved is violated, love acts. It's what we do when something valuable is treated as worthless, we defend it.This debate however miss the single greatest problem in the universe, the justice of God. If God has said that the soul that sins shall die, why does the human race still exist? Is God a lair or worse yet, unjust. Why didn't God cut down Adam and Eve the moment they sinned. He did say that the day they ate they would die, yet they go on for hundreds of more years. The very character of God is on the line here. His He just or unjust. What happens when love and justice collide? This whole question is about the justification of God and how he can be both just and the justifier of the ungodly.What should God do when He is treated with disdain, disregarded, devalued and treated as worthless. What would that say about Him if He were to let that stand? He would be affirming that He is worthless and that would make Him a liar. The question then becomes; are there truly any innocent people? If there are, then they have nothing to worry about. It would be unjust for God to send them to hell. Because He is just He only sends guilty people to hell.The problem is whether or not we have valued anything more than the one who has given us all things. If we have, we have disdained God and committed cosmic treason and that makes us guilty. And guilty people go to prison (hell)Reality is that every human being is guilty before God and they know it. So I ask why shouldn't God send everyone, me included, to hell? If He didn't He would be unjust and we know he isn't. So I think the real question of this debate should be; How does a good God acquit the guilty and remain just? A debt is owed to justice and that debt must be paid. We have only two options; pay it ourselves (hell) or find a substitute to pay it for us. Keep in mind that the size of the debt is in proportion to the value of the offended party and God's value is infinite. That's why hell is forever and only God himself can pay the debt. Infinity minus ten-thousand is still infinity. It takes someone of infinite value to pay it.Also, No one goes to hell because they did or didn't believe something. You go to hell for crimes against God. And God's laws apply to what we think, not just what we do. And keep in mind that the wages of sin is death. Your death will be evidence of your guilt.To all the nay-sayers who will protest and say that all this talk about justice, courts etc. are just human categories and that God is beyond justice and all that stuff; I ask, are we so naive to think that we are more just than God Himself? What an insult to Him.Finally, God is no kill joy, He is the one who created pleasure in the first place. He loves us and wants what is best for us. But what do you do when your beloved rejects you and does violence against other people whom you love? What happens when love and justice collide? They meet on a cross and God dies in the place of those who hated Him, They go free and He is condemned. That's good news indeed and I know of none better. It is the great exchange. 2 Corinthians 5:21For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.So for those who put their trust in Christ when they stand before the "Supreme Court" they will be dismissed for lack of evidence because they stand in the righteousness of another, God's, and not their own.And those who don't are condemned already, just like the ones who received the pardon were. All men have rejected God, me included. I just received the acquittal and not because of anything I did but because of God who showed mercy. But mercy can only be given after justice has been satisfied. That's how a just God can acquit guilty sinners, He pays the debt I get the acquittal. Justice has been satisfied so there is no injustice. God remains just and loving without sacrificing one for the other. Oh the depth of the wisdom of God.