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In Christianity, the Greek word rhema is useful to distinguish between two meanings of "word". While both rhema and logos are translated into the English "word", in the original Greek there was a substantial distinction. In some Charismatic Christianity groups advocating Five-Fold Ministry (including the Pentecostal Movement, Apostolic-Prophetic Movement and Word of Faith Movement) the use of the term rhema has special significance. ==As Epistemology== Some Christians, such as Apostolic-Prophetic Movement Christian minister and author Bill Hamon, put forward the position that rhema are a process within Christian epistemology. In this understanding, the logos is universal for all humanity, while any intellectual changes for a specific individual believer are categorized as rhema. Under this system, "rhema" is a broad term that includes many types of spiritual interaction; "any method God uses to reveal His specific will to an individual, whether by divinely directed desire, illumination, revelation, vision, or dream. ...rhema will be our general term to refer to all of these means of God communicating His specific will to an individual."〔 Hamon states "A rhema is an inspired Word birthed within your own spirit, a whisper from the Holy Spirit like the still, small voice that spoke to Elijah in the cave. It is a divinely inspired impression upon your soul, a flash of thought or a creative idea form God. It is conceived in your spirit, but birthed into your natural understanding by divine illumination. A true rhema carries with it a deep inner assurance and witness of the Spirit."〔 Citing John 1:1,14 Hamon holds "Jesus was the eternal Word revealed and manifest in mortal flesh" and can be called by the personal name "Logos".〔 Citing Timothy 2:15 Hamon defines the less personal usage "logos" as "the Scriptures as a whole".〔 He defines rhema as "a specific word from the Lord that applies it to us individually. …The Logos is like a well of water, and the rhema is a bucket of water from that well. …Truth is truth, and the Logos and rhema are one with God." The logos "is the standard of all truth...the rhema, (that ) which provides the precise word needed for the specific situation. All Christians must live by the logos and receive the rhema as needed."〔 Under this definition the method of receiving rhemas "may come by many ways. A rhema may come while reading the Bible, as God quickens a certain text, or it may come to us through the spoken words of another person."〔 In support of this Hamon cites Ephesians 6:17 "take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word (rhema) of God", and points to William Edwy Vine's ''An Expository Dictonary of New Testament Words'' that explains the passage "Here the reference is not to the whole Bible as such, but to the individual scripture which the Spirit brings to our remembrance for use in time of need, a prerequisite being the regular storing of the mind with scripture".〔 Hamon, expounding on Romans 10:17 goes on to say that a rhema is "that timely, Holy Spirit-inspired Word from the Logos that brings life, power, and faith to perform and fulfil it...() must be received with faith by the hearer in order for it to fulfil its mission."〔 Pentecostal minister and author Jack W. Hayford shares similar sentiments saying " Jesus is the living Logos (John 1:1), the Bible is the written logos (Heb. 4:12), and the Holy Spirit utters the spoken logos (1 Cor. 2:13). …The meaning of rhema in distinction to logos is illustrated in Ephesians 6:17, where the reference is not to the Scriptures as a whole, but to that portion which the believer wields as a sword in the time of need." Pastor Watchman Nee writing along the same lines wrote "In Matthew 4:4 Jesus said, '"It is written, 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every rhema that proceeds out through the mouth of God."' ...Can we say that man shall not live by bread alone, but by the Word of God recorded in the Bible? No. We are not saying that the written Word of God is of no use, but that ''logos''--the Word of God recorded in the Bible--is of no use to us ''by itself''. ...Both ''logos'' and ''rhema'' are the Word of God, but the former is God's Word objectively recorded in the Bible, while the latter is the word of God spoken to us at a specific occasion."〔 According to Nee a passage of the logos can move into being rhema if it becomes shown to apply to the specific individual. As an example Nee holds the statement in Scripture at John 3:16 "that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life" is held to have moved from logos to become rhema if the believer feels a realization that the passage is saying to them "It is I who will not perish and it is I who even now have eternal life."〔 According to Nee at such an instance "God speaks the word to us, and at the same moment, we have faith. ...This does not mean that logos is of no use...for without logos, we could never have ''rhema''. All the ''rhema'' of God is based upon ''logos''.〔 Christian author Alfred Raa Olson also maintains that the only source of true knowledge of YHWH is by the working of the Holy Spirit. He holds that where the Bible says "They will all be taught by God" (Isaiah 54:13; Hebrews 8:11, John 6:45) is fulfilled by means laid out in 1 Corinthians 2:9-16 "what no human mind has conceived—the things God has prepared for those who love him—these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. …we have the mind of Christ." Olson says "You can go to college or Bible school to learn many different things, but you cannot go to school to learn God. You either learn from Him or you don't know Him at all." Just as a person cannot know the thoughts of another, as spoken words don't always match inner thoughts, "Likewise, no man can know what God thinks, but the Spirit of God. When the Spirit of God indwells in us in the form of the Holy Ghost, you have the mind of Christ, and understand His thoughts."〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Alfred Raa Olson )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rhema (doctrine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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