symbolism

Hello all, I was wondering if there were any cultural distinctives within the Puritan movement, symbolism that they held to, symbols, greetings, verbiage, etc. Every group of devout faith has held to certain distinctives, even outside of theological ones. Just curious to what there may have...

It seems to me that a lot of us take the descriptions of Heaven to be symbolic (there won't actually be streets of gold) but the descriptions of Hell to be literal (there will be flames). I'm just curious as to why this is? Why couldn't the descriptions of Hell also be symbolic? Just to...