Isn’t pantheism the same thing as atheism?

[Fake Messiah]

The Bible is to be interpreted, and the non-naive interpretation is known to a minority of people, both Christian and atheist. Literalist sola scriptura Christianity has never been the position of people educated in theology.

Except when they do take it literally like the existence of Noah, Adam, and Eve, six days creation which was taken literally by "serious" theologians like Aquinas and Augustine.

Or take the term Biblical minimalism. It is a name for theologians who consider Bible to be ahistorical, and they are considered to be a minority among theologians today.

Or read the account of Thomas L. Thompson when he wrote a dissertation in 1970s that Bible is not historical and that patriarchs in the Bible did not exist.

He then studied Catholic theology at the University of Tübingen; his dissertation, "The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives: The Quest for the Historical Abraham", was completed in 1971, but rejected by the Catholic faculty (one of his examiners was Joseph Ratzinger, then Tübingen's Professor of Systematic Theology and later Pope Benedict XVI). 

The controversy around his dissertation prevented him from obtaining a position at a North American university.[6] He continued as a private scholar while working as a high-school teacher, janitor, and house painter until he was awarded a guest professorship at the École Biblique in Jerusalem in 1984. This appointment proved controversial among Israelis, who, according to Thompson, objected to his earlier study casting doubt on the historicity of the Jewish origin narratives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_L._Thompson