In various passages, of course there is the verb. But in Romans 10:17, "cometh" is the preposition "ek", which is out of/from and indicating direction and/or motion. It's the anarthrous noun's qualitative characteristic and functional activity.
Man is saved by God's Word being the means of the "report" (the thing heard), out of which comes the thing believed. The thing believed is God's Rhema. Faith, as the sub-standing (hypostasis) of things hoped for, comes by means of God speaking forth His sub-standing (hypostasis).
God is eternal and uncreated; so there could be "no thing" (nothing) else for Him to think and speak about except His sub-standing as objective reality of existence (hypostasis). Man is not saved by doing anything, including hearing or believing or repentint. Those actions come from the nouns when we are resurrected within by faith (the noun) through grace (the noun).
It's a correct report that is central to salvation, which is hearing (the noun). No other "thing" heard will save. No other Rhema will save. No other faith will save. So the report must be the Rhema of God.
Rhema, in short, is from rheo/rheo and the suffix -ma. Rheo and rheo are homonymic (and are verbs), with one meaning "to speak" and the other "to flow". The -ma suffix always means "result of". So Rhema is the result of the flowing and speaking of God. There was no other "thing" for God to speak about that had any sub-standing of objective reality or existence. He alone is eternal and uncreated.
The noun Rhema represents the result of the flowing and speaking of God's Breath and Word to give life. That result is faith, which cometh out of the "report". God's report is the only sure report, so it is the only means of salvation.
HearING and believING and repentING is the action that comes by/in/through/from the noun of faith, which is God' gift by grace. We do not cooperate in Synergy with God resurrecting us. His Word does (has eternally done, is doing, will everlastingly do) it.
It LOOKS like it could be Synergism, because the original creation of man was not dysfunctionalized beyond God's ability and will to refunctionalize man. So latent within us as soon as Rhema/report/faith comes, our heart and mind is changed in repentance from belief inevitably coming into action.
This resurrection is of the inner man (hypostasis), not the outer man (sarx, as demonstrated by the prosopon). We are immediately hypostaticaly translated into the hypostasis of Jesus Christ, living and moving and having our being in Him. Blessed with all spiritual blessings and seated in heavely places in Christ Jesus. The outer man is reckoned dead by faith. THE NOUN. We either have the Rhema and report and it reckons us dead and resurrected into Christ, or we have not put on Christ/are not in Christ.
Believers are in hypostatic union with the ascendend and seated Christ, just as His divinity and humanity are in hypostatic union since the Incarnation. We commune with God from time into timelessness to partake of the divine nature... in/through the risen Christ. This can only be because He is Theanthropos, for without His humanity AND divinity, we couldn't be functionally partaking.
THIS is our true sub-standing (hypostasis) as objective reality of existence, and it comes as the hypostasis of faith from the hypostasis of God through Christ.
but I guess the bible translations are not perfect for me to understand.
Of course not. English doesn't do well in translating such minuatie of meanings. Greek nouns are anarthrous (qualitative) and can then have the article added for an intense array of emphases. English has NO anarthrous anything, and the article merely serves to make the language flow and designate "the" from "a/an".
The same is true of sin (the noun) and many other nouns that are presumed to be either verbs or according to English definite/indefinite articles instead of Greek noun constructs. And English nouns have no cases, either.
I may be missing the big picture but I've been told not to try so hard and hear the whispers of God when my noisy mind calms down.
Maybe that's okay, but it smacks of methodology and much that the false Charismatics do. The Word administers the grace necessary to understand it. It just takes digging below the surface of nominal English language structure.
I'd rather try harder to hear the whispers than to get mix up in multple bible translations.
Try harder? As in "doing" something to "have" faith? That's not how it comes. Don't be a Pelagian/Arminian.
I believe the more I undo, the more I see things clearly. While we're all caught up inside the big bang, I rather look for things before the big bang. I think empty or nothing is really full of everything.
That's a whole 'nother series of subjects, including Cosmogony/Cosmology, etc.
