First: Derive God's omnibenevolence from God's omniscience and omnipotence. Given moral rationalism, and given an agent that is entirely free, possessing all power, and that is supremely rational, it follows that this agent is going to be perfectly benevolent.
Swinburne for this argument.
Second: The Ontological Argument. God is a maximally great being, and omnibenevolence is a great-making property. So God is omnibenevolent.
Third: A simplicity style argument. Limits are less simple than a being with no limits. Evil is a limit. So it's less simple to posit that God is evil than to posit that he is good.
Fourth: Perhaps we could argue inductively from the sheer amount of goodness and value in the world to the conclusion that the Creator is (probably) good. This argument is offset to some degree by the problem of evil.
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