No one in the world has ever, does now, or will ever, interpret the every single word of the Bible as being of the same sense as "the fire is hot."
There are four senses of Scripture: literal, allegorical, anagogical, and moral.
Actually, the four senses are peshat, derash, remez (my personal favorite), and sod. When did I ever deny the multiple senses of scripture? I have no memory of ever doing this. What I have said is that the Torah contains real, literal history, including all those things out side our contemporary experience and which violate the contemporary theories of science. Believing the stories actually happened, exactly as written, in no way whatsoever means that there are not multiple messages in the Torah.
Just as many Catholics and Eastern Orthodox confuse Biblical inerrancy with sola scriptura (when they are two different things), so an insistence on the literal historical accuracy of the Biblical text in no way whatsoever limits Biblical truth to only the literal surface sense, though this is another favorite arguments/red herrings of anti-literalists.