This is an important question for us individually as Christians, but also for our culture. I recently spoke in our church about this a little bit, you can listen to the segment Should People Take the Bible Literally? here.
The good people at Stand to Reason blogged recently about this as well and it is worth a read. Click here.
Looking for a place to start learning how to read the Bible to discover the meaning the author(s) intended the text to have?