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Surprised by Christ: My Journey from Judaism to Orthodox Christianity is unavailable, but you can change that!

Surprised by Christ tells the story of a man searching for truth and unable to rest until he finds it. Raised in Queens, New York, by formerly Orthodox Jewish parents whose faith had been undermined by the Holocaust, Arnold Bernstein went on his own personal quest for the God he instinctively felt was there. He was ready to accept God in whatever form he chose to reveal himself—and that form...

Indeed the Scripture says, “Then the serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil’ ” (Genesis 3:4, 5, emphasis mine). Also, it is a universal Christian belief that Satan’s great sin was seeking to be godlike through pride: “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations! For you have said in your
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