Was Yahweh Originally a Pagan God?

All of the words for God that come from human language have originally “pagan” or, one might say, “unrevealed” roots, yet these pagan words for God or the gods contain notions of God that indicate our relation to him. All of them indicate some kind of origin or benefit or relationship that derives from human experience and that is then applied to a supreme and (at least) more-than-human being, in order to name his or their nature.

So when God himself saw fit to reveal himself directly to certain human beings, first at our creation and then in the various covenants leading up to the Mosaic law and then finally in Christ, he made use of the existing words and concepts of human religious tradition in order to convey his truth. Thus, there is no problem that the name of “He Who Is” might have been used for some other god before the true God used this name with Moses from the burning bush. Rather we see that God used the aptest forms of human expression available to reveal new truths about himself.