User blog comment:Calvincambridge30/Versus/@comment-3481504-20151023054224/@comment-26992577-20151024181557

I think there a multiple explanations:


 * He created more than 4, maybe 4000000 and Michael, Lucifer, Gabriel and Raphael were the random survivers.
 * Maybe they have a property that is indeed equal to God: More specific: They are beings of light. You can't fight a dark space with with a hammer, but you can bright it up with a light source. The dark space it The Darkness and the light source are God and his archangels, equal only in that property, in all other ones God is highly superior.
 * They were just there for the "moral support".
 * As it seems, the problems between the Darkness and God evolved over time, so he created the archangels not to fight The Darkness, they were just already there and went to war with him.
 * They were originally more powerful but god limited their power after the war.