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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 2439642" data-attributes="member: 4720">Sources disagree.  Gabriel is implicated in several of God's little genocides (esp. Sodom and Gemorrah).  He's a VERY different cat in the Old Testament than in the New Testament, where he becomes a herald and such.  Raphael doesn't appear in the canonical scriptures at all, and is variously represented as a messenger or (more commonly, I think) as a healer.Lucifer is a bit of a mess.  As I recall, he's also not named as such in anything canonical, and the correspondence between the Adversary (Satan) and "Lucifer the Archangel" is common, but not 100% across all the sects and groups that had him.Personally, I always like the version where Lucifer was the brightest and most powerful angel and was exiled for trying to raise his throne higher than God's.  I also like the Sufi version, which says that Lucifer loved God more than anyone else did, and was actually thrown out for refusing to bow down to Man.  His justification was that God was the only being worthy of such reverence.  (Or variously, he stuck to God's original law that Angels should bow only to God, eventhough God Himself had changed his mind)Of course, "Lightbringer" really comes from the fact that he's associated with the planet Venus (the brightest "star"), from back when they were more concerned with converting the heathens than maintaining the integrity of the Scriptures or the belief system.</blockquote>

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