No verifiable difference? That’s proof enough that you need to twist all of scripture into an unrecognizable hodgepodge just to support your heresy.
It is what I call the lexicon shuffle. The prederists do it to try to prove all prophecy fulfilled to include the second coming of Christ and the resurrection of all mankind.
The Mormons do it to try to prove Joe Smith is one of the Revelation witnesses.
The FRomans do the lexicon shuffle to try to prove the perpetual virginity of the Blessed Mary.
So we are to believe every instance of “theos” means ‘god’ instead of God. And every instance in the OT of elohiym is god or gods.