Elohim And Pagan Deities

When Judges 6:31 speaks of Baal, it uses Elohim, the same plural Hebrew word mistaken for "proof" of the Trinity in Genesis 1.  As if Genesis suggests anything about three divine persons that are supposedly different from each other and yet totally the same (a logical contradiction), and as if the Father could not have been talking to himself or angels instead of Christ, who is not the same as the Father anyway (Matthew 24:36), some Trinitarians hold that Elohim is obvious evidence or proof of their stance.  Even if it was evidence, it would not be proof, but it is neither.  There are many issues with the idea that Genesis 1 is Trinitarian, or any other part of the Bible.  With pagan deities, though, the sheer hypocrisy of the Elohim argument for Trinitarianism becomes apparent.

If the same plural Hebrew word is used of Baal, a singular false deity, then why would it be plural only when used for Yahweh?  Does Baal have multiple personality disorder like the evangelical notion of the Biblical God does?  To be consistent, Trinitarians who truly posit that Elohim refers to the conventional Trinity in Genesis 1--when the Bible never teaches this Trinity from Genesis 1 onward--would have to think that Baal is also a "three persons in one godhead" deity.  Of course they do not, because this is not integral to their Trinitarianism.  They need to believe that it must be this way for Yahweh in order to maintain their assumptions.  As long as they focus on something that does not even logically follow from the wording of Genesis 1:26 to begin with, they might not even bother to see that Elohim is used for other deities.

1 Samuel 5:7 refers to the Philistine Dagon as Elohim.  Is the Bible saying Dagon is a Trinity as well?  I have never heard a single person propose this, though Trinitarians, since their concept is not taught in the Bible, cling to non sequiturs when it comes specifically to Yahweh.  Again, Trinitarians assume that Elohim must mean something different with the Father than it does in other contexts.  More pagan entities are also called by the same word.  Baal, Dagon, and others are referenced using Elohim, and they are presented as singular beings.  No one could read verses like 1 Samuel 5:7 and think that Dagon must have three persons within himself without making assumptions, and ones that are not even hinted at as being true.

Likewise, no one would read of Yahweh in Genesis 1:1, 1:26, or elsewhere and ever think that God is three distinct persons in one, and yet not really three separate persons (Trinitarians are horrible logicians, at least in this regard!), unless they believed something on the basis of asinine epistemological faith.  More crucially, if this is what the Bible taught, that the real deity of reality has three minds within one mind and not in the sense of modalism, then the Bible would be incapable of being true when it comes to this.  Christianity would still have some valid components, such as by merely having an uncaused cause, but other parts would be literally impossible.  The Bible just does not teach any of this.  It neither teaches modalism nor the Trinitarianism in traditional distortions of Christianity.