I do not come pronouncing gifts, nor do I see anyone else as coming in this manner, a "gifting" God to me is a God of ego, rather, I come with my understanding, one that may or may not touch another in their search to discover, for themselves, the nature of God.

One thing no man can deny and that is that whatever God one declares as their own, be it the Word of mystery or be it of the Word of tangibility, this is the God they will experience.  Cause and effect will not be mocked.  Is the spirit of love (or any spirit for that matter) a metaphor of a mystery or is the spirit of love a tangible knowing? This is the something of God that every man must decide for himself.  As I see it, neither view is declaring spirit or the Word to be something that can be seen with the eye of sense.

As for God in relation to the idea of deception, this is something every man must also discover for himself.