Familiar words like "heaven" and "earth" often come with preloaded ideas and images. This means we may too quickly assume we understand what they mean. Familiar words may appear easy to understand while causing us to miss layered meanings. But what if our assumption of meaning is not what the author had in mind? For example, we might picture a globe spinning in space when reading the word “earth,” but the biblical authors and their original audiences would have pictured something different. In our quest to understand biblical words, we need to develop the skill of recognizing our preloaded assumptions about the meaning of words.