why Gabriel wins: 1) Gabriel has many good abilities, his most notable being Nigh-Omnipresence, Durability negation, immortality types 1,2 and 4, existence erasure and Pocket Reality Manipulation. 2) It was implied that he chained Jesus under Nazareth in a prison of Infinite sand, which appears as a pocket dimension in the late Volume 5 of the series, where he trapped a Shepherd there, chaining him 3) He Created the Alternates, is Cunning and a Calculative manipulator, deceived : Adam & Eve ( first humans ), Angel Gabriel, Noah ( Prophet ), Marie and Joseph, Jesus, Lieutenant Thatcher Davis, Dave Lee, Adam Murray, [ who did not even realized he was an Alternate ] Etc. He also has great knowledge of the earth and the skies as well as human beings' true nature. Implied to be at the origin of the Forbidden Fruit of Knowledge.
