I plead innocent to your first charge and guilty to the second.I DO have a high view of my own character and I feel that way because development of aformentioned character is constantly changing and being smoothed out for the better.
I do exercise humility and view God as my standard for how to live a righteous life.And,like all of us mortals,I have fallen short of that in my own life.
Yet eternal damnation?Sorry, but thatterrible fate offends my understanding of the essence of God Himself.
From my Catholic perspective...
Sin is separation from God. Sin becomes a habit, and a choice to not stand in communion with God. He allows free choice, and Hell is a place for those who do not wish to be with Him.
Is it hellfire and brimstone? Who knows - perhaps that's the way to describe the very terribleness of hell. I lean towards the idea that hell is the very despair, agony (physical and mental) and bleakness that occurs in very deep depression.