Christians like to think there are many names for God: Yah, Yahweh, Jehovah, El Shaddai, El Elom, etc.
These were all DIFFERENT gods. The proto-Yahweh culture of ancient Israel (Israel might not have ever been a complete Kingdom ever; the stories of David and Soloman are sparse outside of Jewish text) had several different Gods. As monotheism started to take hold in many regions, the conquered may say "well we're monotheist too. Our gods must be the same," and so they adapt a local name.
Monotheism in this era is basically a trial of combat by Gods. The true God must be the winner. This isn't the same as the Hindu concept of "all gods being one" (all quests for divinity lead men to the same questions), but it's an interesting precursor that predates the Hindu concept by 500 years and a mirror/ philosophical counterpart to that concept.
No it's the same thing they just changed the name.
Incorrect. Worshippers of Yahweh attacked worshipers of Baal. They were two distinct entities.
Christians like to think there are many names for God: Yah, Yahweh, Jehovah, El Shaddai, El Elom, etc.
These were all DIFFERENT gods. The proto-Yahweh culture of ancient Israel (Israel might not have ever been a complete Kingdom ever; the stories of David and Soloman are sparse outside of Jewish text) had several different Gods. As monotheism started to take hold in many regions, the conquered may say "well we're monotheist too. Our gods must be the same," and so they adapt a local name.
Monotheism in this era is basically a trial of combat by Gods. The true God must be the winner. This isn't the same as the Hindu concept of "all gods being one" (all quests for divinity lead men to the same questions), but it's an interesting precursor that predates the Hindu concept by 500 years and a mirror/ philosophical counterpart to that concept.
Religion in ancient history looks more like gamers playing Civ than a spiritual monotheistic philosophy.