also could you list your references being used?
I am using your sources, among others.
You're talking about the same God being worshipped different ways. I'm not sure why you're drawing a distinction and trying to assert that Moses was dealing with a complete different God. Moses, or whoever wrote these books, made no effort to hide that El Shaddai and yahweh were identical. They explicitly said so
Wow. Way to twist my words. El was the supreme god in semitic cultures. Yahweh was a lessor, minor god, brother of Ba'al. Later, the Hebrew people's, the Israelites, who claimed Abraham as their founder, just as Muslims do, who worshiped Yahweh, began to give him qualities of El. El and Yahweh were not the same. Later semitic peoples merged two distinct gods into one, but ONLY for a very small subset of the semitic peoples that shared this pantheon of Gods.
I am drawing a distinction because that is what the evidence supports.
If the bible writers had made an effort to hide this gods history, I'd agree with you. But they didn't, so I don't.
The Bible clearly shows the evolution of the merging of these two distinct gods, even your own sources.
You seem to think this discredits the bible somehow, but it does not. Had the writer tried to hide it, like this God just chose him all the sudden, then it would - but that's not what happens in the books.
You seem to think the default should be "Bible until proven otherwise". It's not. BTW, God choosing anyone is a theological argument, not a historical one. It's got no place in a discussion on history.
All through the New Testament yahweh is actually recalled from the Old Testament and applied to Christ (Hebrews 1 is an example
That's a perfect example of people taking things written in one context and backporting the idea to mean something entirely different! Jesus, specifically, was not predicted in the OT. A similar thing happened to Yahweh.... things written about a completely different God, El, were eventually claimed to be about Yahweh and eventually their distinct identities were merged by Hebrew semitic peoples.
It would show that the God being referred to by Jacob and Abraham whom they spoke with was el Shaddai, later yahweh, and the being who becomes Jesus. While El, is the father of this being, the almighty who Christ refers to as greater than himself. It would fit the very binitarian view of the NT by demonstrating a similar view in the OT.
That's an incredibly tortured, pretzel logic interpretation of what you are reading. Sadly, that's what happens when you try to make the facts fit your beliefs and not the other way around.