Does the Church believe in a physical Hell?
On page 862 in the Catechism in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, it asks, "What do we mean by heaven and hell?" The answer is "by heaven, we mean eternal life in our enjoyment of God; by hell, we mean eternal death in our rejection of God."
The way I have always understood "hell" is that it is less of a physical place but more of a state of being (spiritual place) eternally separated from God, described vaguely in the Catechism as eternal death in our rejection of God. Hell is interpreted and understood differently throughout the Church, but all agree that hell is a state of eternal separation from God.
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