An excellent book that I'm rereading is Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously But Not Literally, by Marcus J. Borg.
The book is basically a response to fundamentalist Christians. He sees the Bible not as "literal-factual," but as "historical-metaphorical." I was in the fundamentalist Christian movement when I was a teenager and it made sense to me then. But what I didn't know was that much of one's belief has to do with what presuppositions you start with.
As a fundamentalist, we started off with the presupposition that the Bible is basically dictated from God, therefore it can by definition contain no errors in it. I just found that couldn't stand up against what was thrown at it.
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