Nope! My assumption is that the text is allegorical, and so please decide what the allegories are about and commit to an interpretation. Or else stop claiming that any of it is true, or the word of god, etc. You can't say, "these words are from god and they are true, and their meaning is [insert my subjective interpretation out of thin air]". I mean, if it were the were the word of god, how dare you even substitute your paraphrase? Oh right, you have divine inspiration---pardon me! God appeared to you one night and said, "here is what I really meant behind this paragraph".
Secondly, Christians literally believe the bulk of the New Testament: that Jesus really lived, was really the result of a virgin birth with God as the father, that he walked on water and so on. If you don't believe that material literally, you're a heretic. The latitude for allegoric interpretation is confined to the Old Testament. Literal belief in a large section of the Bible is not anachronistic at all; it is perfectly current.