Rhema

    The New Testament was written in Greek. Yup, not Arabic like I once though. I was pretty sure it was not English, as you see living in Dubai, I was able to interact with many people from Palestine, Iraq, Iran and Syria. So, I expected  some thing of Arabic nature to be the language. Well Hebrew looks a lot like Greek letters written backward. And FYI Hebrew is written from Right to Left like Arabic.
 
    Now many have written blogs and church write ups and essays and a lot of stuff on the topic Rhema. In Wikipedia, Rhema has a session  in theology too. So, what is this post about? Nothing too dramatic, but some thoughts of the mind.

You see people who translated the original Bible especially the new testament, found it difficult to express the meaning of some sentences from Greek roots to English as there were no substitutes for many word and if there were a really passionate linguist (a person who learns languages) that guy would have broken his head trying to communicate. Now this is where the word Rhema comes. The meaning of the word Rhema is in the sentence itself. He he. Find it! Well if you have given up, Rhema means word. 




Aristotle, the Greek dude had this explaniation of Rhema. He found the word Rheme / Rhema to be mostly associated with verbs than nouns. Let me explain.
Example 1: John gave his word.
Example 2: He worded out for help.


Ok, the example is a little difficult. In the first example the word "word" is a noun and the second the word "word" is a verb. You see Greek was a simple language to write but it had a lot of complexities.

So even the word "WORD" in Greek had 3 meanings or logical conclusion.
Rhema, Logos, Onoma. Onoma was the subject and Logos was the preposition and Rhema was the verb or the cog in the sentence. So far it things are still messy and you are confused, check this example.
Example 3: The car was driven into the pool
Example 4: I had given the car so that you may learn to drive.
In the sentences above the word Drive is a verb in the example 3 and a noun in Example 4.  This is the same case with the word "word" in Greek. So, if something is to take action they used Rhema. And here is what i have to say. from the verse from the Bible.

"Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ. (Bible) (rhematos Christou in Greek).Romans 10:17 (NIV) 

The word of Christ is the above context is in verb form. This means this word is active or involved in an action. This is the action that brings the faith. This action is the one that brings people from despair. So in short, the word (Rhema) of God is not just a word bringing true meaning, but a word expecting to bring a action or set the written stuff into motion. So when we are receive some guidance from God we are expected to set the thing into motion. You can figure out the rest I believe. God Bless.