- I kept asking the question:

Is there more to lifethan what I'm seeing?

Is there more to life

than what the socialenvironment is teaching me?

How can find more meaning, more purpose

in my life, in my existence?

- [Reporter] Dr. DragosBratasanu grew up in Romania

in the years after the fall of communism.

Although he was drawn tovarious world religions,

Christianity was not one of them.

- I saw people going through the motions

of bowing down to the bones of the dead,

of going up to light candlesfor Easter or Christmas,

or growing up with the belief

that you have to go through the priest

if you want to go to the living God.

But because of that, becauseof the religious environment

I grew up in, I simply refused

to have anything to do with Christianity.

- [Narrator] Instead,Dragos worshiped knowledge

and education.

While living in Germany, he received a PhD

in satellite-based intelligence studies.

- I took the path of science,the path of engineering,

because this is what thesocial context was showing me.

You have to get a job, clingonto it as hard as possible

for as many years as possible,and if you've made it

all the way into retirement,you're successful.

- [Narrator] Dragos excelled in his career

and received worldwide acclaim.

He studied with NASA and was even featured

in "National Geographic" magazine,

but he still was empty inside.

- I investigated every,

or almost every spiritualtradition around the world.

Because I had putChristianity on the side,

I did not want to read the black book

with the cross on the cover.

- [Narrator] His journey took him

from the frozen icecaps of the Arctic

to the deepest jungles of the Amazon.

Across five continents, Dragos searched.

- So I had spent about sevenyears researching, practicing,

meditating, starting allthese spiritual traditions.

However, the more I studied,the more I could not get

to the knowledge of the truth.

Almost every area of my life crumbled.

My relationship ended after six years,

my startup company didn't work

as I was hoping it would work,

and it ended up with mein my parents' apartment

in depression and such wretched pain.

- [Narrator] His despair even brought him

to the brink of suicide.

- It got so bad that I waswalking past graveyards

as I was coming back from workand I was cursing the dead

for wanting to be in their place.

- [Narrator] One eveningat his parents' apartment,

Dragos decided to pray.

- The pain was so intense.

I just took my pillowand I cried out to God

from the bottom of my heart,from the bottom of my being.

I said, "God, if you're real, I need you.

"You have to come to me

"because I just cannot do this anymore."

- [Narrator] Shortly after,he called a friend in Hawaii.

- I flew to Hawaii andthis friend of mine,

who wasn't even a Christian,

he doesn't believe in the Bible,

he said to me, "If you have the chance

"to read something by Kathryn Kuhlman,

"just find the book and read.

"Maybe it will help."

I go online.

The first book that showed up

was called "The GreatestPower in the World."

I flipped through the pages of this book

and, as I read the last row of the forward

that said, "If you have notmade that full surrender

"to Jesus Christ, do it now."

When my eyes finishedreading the sentence,

I felt like an electricshock going through my heart

or as if I was struck by lightning.

My knees buckled, I droppedthe book in the sink,

and I almost went down on the floor.

When I got up a second later,

I was instantly healed ofall guilt, shame, depression,

and not only that, but in that moment,

I knew that I knew that I knew

that Jesus Christ is the truth.

I had no mental understand whatsoever

about what this means, butI knew beyond any doubt

that Jesus Christ is the truth.

- [Narrator] Dragos thenreceived water baptism.

(people clapping and cheering)

- For four months then, I repented

of everything I had ever done.

And the more I was repenting,

the more I was opening upto the Heavenly Father,

the more love He poured into me.

- [Narrator] Today, Dragoswants to show the world

through his writing and speaking

that science and faithneed not be incompatible.

- The scientific communities have spent

more than 40 years lookinginto near death experiences.

And after studying thousands and thousands

of testimonies of near death accounts,

some of the best scientists in the world

have come to the understandingand the knowledge

that there is an afterlife

and heaven and hell are real places.

- [Narrator] He also says heknow longer worships knowledge,

but instead, the source of all knowledge,

the one who has given his life meaning.

- The only thing that has purpose for me

in this world right now isfor Him to be pleased with me.

All I care is that the one who saved me

when I was on the edge of the grave,

when I was struggling in despair,

He reached down from heaven,He grabbed me from near death,

He put me on the rock,He gave me a new life

of hope, of love, of power.

Now all I care is for Himto be pleased with me.

Jesus Christ for me isthe beginning and the end,

the Alpha an the Omega,the meaning, the purpose,

and the life.