At the beginning of the faith, most Christians believed the afterlife fires were created to purge the unrepentant man of his sins so he could eventually enter the kingdom of God. This belief persisted as the mainstream view in Christianity until the fifth century. Then, in the fifth century, everything suddenly and dramatically changed. New Christians were exclusively being taught the doctrine of eternal damnation in hell. The Jerome Conspiracy reveals the surprising history on how the teaching of hell entered the Christian faith and Bible.