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No, the books of the New Testament were written by people. I don't believe anyone mainstream maintains anything different. There could be a cult with dozens of followers who suggest this but no significant group holds the NT as being written by God directly.
Almost all Christian denominations do not hold a literal belief in the Bible as no Jewish sect maintains a literal view of their text eg everyone gets that Job is an allegory.
A literal take on the Bible is very much a recent creation of backwater folks in America. It isn’t common despite what the internet maintains. Roman Catholics still make up the vast majority of believers and they don’t hold this view.
I don't mean biblical literalism, but rather the belief that the Bible is divinely inspired and "true" in whichever context they deem important (pretty sure Catholics say it's true in matters of spirit or something like that).