The reason for this is really quite simple. We don't want anything which we cannot revise, edit, rewrite, paint over, or reconceptualize whenever we come up with a new metaphysical theory. Herod just wanted to be King. But we have bigger plans. The greatest revolts against God occur in the areas of language.
Language is, after all, the primary tool of cognition.
That is, we think in words. God has always been most concerned with facts that can be conveyed with words, not with emotions transmitted by who knows what kind of celestial ooze. The only response to this is that this is a false dichotomy. The Bible does not put the heart in opposition to the intellect. Indeed, in the Bible and all of classical literature, the heart was seen as the seat of the intellect, while the seat of the emotions was the stomach or bowels.