love can be somewhat of an ambiguous word today and although you can say God is love and the reverse that love is God when the latter is emphasized and your definition of love is distorted then your definition of God inherits that distortion.
"Distortions" are unique to individual perception. Each mind participates in error only by degrees. For example, a depraved mind may consider love as a means to signal or derive sexual pleasure. A powerfully calm and focused mind, on the other hand, will have a much broader cognition of the wide spectrum and scope of love.
No solution is available since all human language, English especially, is incapable of conveying absolute truth.
So to me it is important to define love through the context of God and only then God is love and love is God.
The human mind cannot fathom a definition of God, much less put it in discernible signs or symbols. God is most notably defined by scholars and theologians in the negative (i.e.,
immutable,
infinite, etc.)
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here, except to build a case for your next assertion....
In the same way to say love is ultimate reality than again if your definition of love is distorted then ultimate reality turns into deception.
So far, all I have established is that God, Love, and Ultimate Reality are different terms describing the same thing. Any burden of distortion is on the individual mind and has no relevance to the general truth of what I'm trying to convey here.
So these words need to first be defined through God. This works the same with evil as evil inherently is that which is not good.
And here we have the key to your confusion. What is evil? In light of what is good, evil is not good's opposite, since Good is another synonym of God, Love, and Ultimate Reality. Evil, is good distorted. Here we have your initial concern.
The paranoid, depraved, undisciplined mind cannot see God because of distortion, or EVIL.
But what is goodness? God is goodness and goodness is God but just like love goodness is defined through God so then that which is evil is that which goes against God.
Exactly, but is this worth mentioning since it is all self-evident? Do you enjoy hearing yourself talk? I'm just picking on you, but seriously... I don't see what you are contributing to my post.
When these words are defined through God we then approach them correctly.
When anything is defined or approached through the context of God, Good, Love, Peace, Beauty, Light, Ultimate Reality, of course we approach them correctly. Anything less, and we have fallen into Error, Sin, Evil, Ignorance, Distortion, etc.
To do evil is inherently to reject God and to do good is inherently to embrace God.
To do evil is to sin (miss the mark) either out of ignorance or defiance or both, but it does not mean the necessary (inherent) the rejection of God. This goes the same with good in light of God... sometimes we do good because of selfish motives, not because we consciously, willfully embrace God.
To me it is not good enough to say that our ultimate goal in life is to find love as that can lead you down to a corrupted idea of who God is. Instead our goal should be to find God which will ultimately revel to us what love and truth really is.
I agree with you here. If love isn't your thing (which, by the way, it is obvious this is not your strong suit, nor is it mine, so let's call a spade a spade), then it is important to find another path to God, such as the peace that Jesus and the church fathers spoke about, or the beauty of the mystics, or the light that John spoke of, or the moral perfection of other traditions. It all leads to Christ, which is the WAY, no matter how you slice it up.
The goal of man should be to glorify the source of our being, that is God. How do we do that? We follow the trail of his attributes until we find him. Then we realize that all paths lead to "Rome" (I'm not a Catholic, I am using an analogy here).
Best of luck to you. I'll see you in glory.