The “ask anybody on the street” argument doesn’t really work because people also describe heaven as having pearly gates (when that actually is the Holy City in Revelation), or God being an old man with a long white beard, or to attribute proverbs to the Bible that it doesn’t say (like “money is the root of all evil” or “God helps those who help themselves.”)

Plus, the point I made about perhaps the Bible trying to describe something that potentially defies description from our points of view (or at least the points of view of those in biblical times.)