Your loss. If you close your mind, you will never come to a reasonable understanding of the tradition and theology of Xy, whether you agree with it or not. Willful ignorance is a frightful thing to consign oneself to.
Who said "God saved [God's] word?" I suspect God's "word" is decidedly more fluid and amorphous than you give it credit for.
See my first response at the top of this post. If you really think Jesus' disciples wrote the bible, you are sadly, sadly, embarrassingly mistaken.
First of all, "all scripture" here does not include the NT. Second, God always works through human agency.
God doesn't. But people do -- in this case, the people who wrote the texts. I'm sure they made sense to the intended audiences, but we are far, far removed by both time and culture.
I didn't say it was an "unknown agenda." I said that the texts merited exegesis.
I don't "dismiss" texts. I exegete texts and weigh their relative merits with regard to their continued relevancy.
There is such a connection, and it's so close that we overlook it. God is life. We are alive, because we have the breath of life in our nostrils. God is as close as every breath we take. I'm sorry you've missed that and felt that you were unable to find God. I'm confident that you will when the time is right for you.