Um well, um , Let me see. I struggled with this too. Since Im not a bible scholar , Ill just say I think my dad and mom love me and all of the kids. However if the oldest attacked the youngest what father would not full force defend the younger. Or if a thief broke in your home what man would not full force defend and harm a attacker. Even to death. So in this way I think God defends what he loves and will one day distroy what is evil. Do you like violent wicked men and do you wish to live with them? These are the references your luke 19 refered too.

The god of the bible is not a loving god. He is a psycopath, as can be seen clearly if anyone actually takes the time to read the book. For just a few of the many many references to the violence and cruelty either perpetrated by or condoned by the god of the bible, see here: http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/cruelty/long.html

Did you read this in context? It is a parable. A comparison. 11While they were listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at once. 12He said: "A man of noble birth went to a distant country to have himself appointed king and then to return. 13So he called ten of his servants and gave them ten minas.[a]'Put this money to work,' he said, 'until I come back.' 14"But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, 'We don't want this man to be our king.' 15"He was made king, however, and returned home. Then he sent for the servants to whom he had given the money, in order to find out what they had gained with it. 16"The first one came and said, 'Sir, your mina has earned ten more.' 17" 'Well done, my good servant!' his master replied. 'Because you have been trustworthy in a very small matter, take charge of ten cities.' 18"The second came and said, 'Sir, your mina has earned five more.' 19"His master answered, 'You take charge of five cities.' 20"Then another servant came and said, 'Sir, here is your mina; I have kept it laid away in a piece of cloth. 21I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take out what you did not put in and reap what you did not sow.' 22"His master replied, 'I will judge you by your own words, you wicked servant! You knew, did you, that I am a hard man, taking out what I did not put in, and reaping what I did not sow? 23Why then didn't you put my money on deposit, so that when I came back, I could have collected it with interest?' 24"Then he said to those standing by, 'Take his mina away from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.' 25" 'Sir,' they said, 'he already has ten!' 26"He replied, 'I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but as for the one who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away. 27But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me." =========== While characters in parables on the whole approximate to a real person eg God, not everything can be taken back across the comparison. People of Jesus' age knew what kings were like. They were living under the Herods, who acted just like the despot in this parable. (Jesus may , in fact, have been using black humour to get his message across). The message of the parable is that you do not "sit on" the gifts that God has given you. Because if you do not use them to advance the kingdom, they will be taken away from you. There is, however, a second message here: do not defy your Lord and God, because punishment does, indeed, await you. This is not unloving. A person who does not want to be in God's Kingdom and shoves Him away, cannot expect to enjoy the Kingdom. Put it in modern day form: if your child tells you he/she hates you, and does not want to live under your roof, can they expect to turn up on their birthday and be given a party? Hardly. Does that make you less loving because you exclude them? (exclusion is a form of "little death"). Not at all. That is what they have asked for, and you have granted it. Some things, like punishment, are, indeed, hard to accept. No one likes to be punished. It would be lovely to see a criminal being taken to gaol, saying "Yes, I deserve this." But they don't. Yet we are all "criminals" in that we reject God and His plan. So, there will be some who "die" (at their own request, in fact). But, God has provided the way back (this was not spelled out in this particular parable, because that was not its intention). If you look at the Parable of the Lost SOn, you will see that, no matter what the Son has done, the Father never stops looking for him, and runs to him when he sees him, barely giving him time to utter the words "I have sinned against you and against Heaven" before he is reclothed and sat down at a feast just for him. God does punish-although those who are punished have, infact, requested to be excluded from God's presence- but He has opened the way for ANYONE to return to Him, by the death of His own Son. The guys in the parable might have died at the hands of the tyrant, but God has shown that He is not like that human tyrant in that He was willing for His Son to die, rather than the rebellious subjects. I hope I have explained it. :-)

this "loving" god condones murder, supposedly flooded the earth to wipe out all life(REAL loving there), kills men women, and children. Allows "his" children to bicker and kill each other. Honestly if I had several kids, and they all were beating the crap outta each other, I would actually get up off my ass and actually do some parenting, not sit idly by with my thumb up my ass.