why do christians use "Hallelujah" to praise god but they dont call god Jehovah?

Question

since Hallelujah means "Praise Jehovah"

Answer 1

They don't know what it means.

ON a vacation to Europe some friends visiting this huge elaborate Church that was so fancy. In fact some of the Catholic Churches in Europe they took pictures inside and I noticed the tetragramatan of the four Hebrew characters that spell Jehovah. They said they acknowledged that God's name is Jehovah and the church has recognized that for years. However, today it has kind of fallen away from using the name. But the do recognize that is God's name.
I didn't know that and found that interesting.

Answer 2

We use the term God because that's what is usually used in the Bible. It doesn't say "In the beginning Jehovah created the heavens and the earth." It says "In the beginning God..."

We say "hallelujah" because language tradition has passed the word down through the years. But we also say "praise the Lord." It's just how it is.

Answer 3

OK, let's unpack this and understand its context. This is Isaiah of Babylon (Isaiah 40-53). His historical prophetic mission was to persuade the exiles to return. That is, the people of Judea (the area near Jerusalem) had been hauled off to Babylon as slaves, but the coming of the Persian king Cyrus (see Isaiah 45) has started a new regime without slavery. So, the whole thrust of this part of Isaiah is to get the descendants (the seed) of the ones carried into exile to go home to Jerusalem. There's another similar theme going on: the ingathering of the diaspora. The people of Judea were scattered all over the world at the time of the Babylonian captivity, and this passage is about getting them back together. A third theme, which fills much of the Hebrew Bible's prophetic literature, is the yearning for the end of tribalism (the "nations" are the tribes of the Levant in Isaiah's usage) and the gathering of all peoples before the holy One. We can see this on the focus on "no other Gods;" the various tribes had their own deities. How can this be meaningful to us today? How can we reinterpret this historical material to show us how we might live faithfully? Do we, like Isaiah's people, need to be prodded and begged to claim abundant life as free people? Do we need to be booted out of our comfort zones? Well, yes. Are we stuck in tribalism and division? Do we need the prophet to remind us that the way of tribalism and false gods isn't the best way? Do we have something we can learn from strangers ("their witnesses?") Well, yes. Does the global internet serve the cause of getting us out of our comfort zones and our tribalism? Does it bring the nations together? Does it "prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God?" Is this electronic highway a highway to bring us together? I think so. But it's possible to exaggerate this. Radio and television are pretty much the same deal. It seems to me that God keeps throwing us ways of bringing the nations together, and we often misuse them. Grace and peace to you.

Answer 4

Hi Shawn. It is useful to give more detail to your question, since there are many different Christian denominations out there, it is not right to generalize. So which "Christians" are you talking about??
I know that the few that follow biblical teaching, do call God Jehovah. As in Jehovah Jaira - God our provider.

God bless you.

Answer 5

Bc Satan blinds their minds.
Not to say the person isn't truly wanting a relationship w/ Jehovah God.
Only He can read hearts.
That is Not for me 2 judge.

But, even as some here have said;
Sadly, they know his name or know of it & yet,
Refuse to acknowledge Him as the One True God.
Also, they Refuse to acknowledge
His earthly organization and His ppl.
Some chose to Attack!
Amos 3:7
So, it will be thus, in the "Day of Jehovah."
They deny Him; He will deny them.

edit: thk You. Ruth.
see, ppl; I told u.

Answer 6

You are right about what it means. However, you are mistaken that Chritians never use the name. We even have some traditional hymns that use the name.

However, there are many names of God in the OT that are just as valid to use, depending on what characteristics of God you want to emphasize. For example, "El Shaddai", which is descriptive of God as our provider and sustainer.

However, most times, when we talk about Him or to Him, we use names that describe His persona over all, such as "our Father", as Jesus addressed His famous prayer, or "Lord", which denotes the place He holds in our lives.

Answer 7

Well you have to think about it. If they recognized Gods name was Jehovah then they would have to come with terms that they do things wrong and that the trinity doctrine is false due to jesus being a different being.

Answer 8

Because Christians and a group of lying Jews who wanted to kill Jesus, equates the Son of God equal to God.

John 5:18 - On this account, indeed, the Jews began seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath but he was also calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

Christians believe the Jews that Jesus is God. Jesus corrects them saying “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said: “You are gods”’?

Jesus also tells these Jews that were accusing him of being God that they are Sons of the father of the lie.

Jhn 8:44 Ye are of the devil, as [your] father, and ye desire to do the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks falsehood, he speaks of what is his own; for he is a liar and its father:

Answer 9

To my belief of the reason "why" they don't except that name. Why? The Jehovah Witnesses (to what I know is true) have acknowledged and used the name "Jehovah" first. Other religion believer's got angry (probably out of jealousy) about that and started calling JW's cults, devils, blasphemer's, hater's of Jesus, etc...........you name it and probably has been said. But now there are other churches that started using Jehovah's name, example the Pentecostal's. I think even the Baptist's and so on. So for other church member's (like Catholics) to utter that name out of their mouths is like admitting all along the JW's was right. To much PRIDE gets in people's way but you know what, it's NOT going to cut it with Jehovah God. Pride will cost them their salvation to Armageddon. Too bad because Jesus gives salvation freely to all. If we don't receive it; no one to blame but ourself.
IF I am wrong then prove it in a nice way. Don't bash me and I am not judging.

Answer 10

Jehovah is a made up word coming from the Hebrew YWYH