The Bible is a metaphor!!!!!

Josh, Jo, Fiona, Sarah and I were taking this morning about the two paradigms of Christian beliefs that are within the world at the moment.
One paradigm is the earlier paradigm as it is the one that was believed first. This paradigm interprets the bible literally. Either everything in the Bible is literal and God did make the earth in exactly seven days, and Jesus was raised from the dead, or the important parts of the bible are literal, but the less important things can be thought of as metaphor, like God made the earth in seven days (time periods), but Jesus was definitely raised from the dead
The other paradigm is the emerging paradigm. This paradigm says that more recently, more and more of the bible is being taken as a metaphor, and not literally, but keeping the truth within it.
So, can the bible still mean the same to me if it is a metaphor, is the truth still there? Would it still change my life?
If the bible is a metaphor, then my core belief that Jesus saved me by dying for me and rising from the dead did not actually happen. Yes, the truth that Jesus has still saved me may still be there, but it does not have the impact to my life as the fact has. The fact that Jesus humbled himself and made himself man and came to this earth and lived in pain to save me means more to me than just the fact that he saved me.
And so, maybe, if the bible was a metaphor, it could still change my life. The truth that is behind what it says is still there, and so my life would not change that much, but I believe that the bible is literal. Because my life has more meaning to me believing in a God that has done everything that is written in the bible.