Since Renaissance times, churches have tended to depict angels as blonde white kids with fluffy wings, but no such characters ...

Angels are typically pictured to be the holier-than-thou servants of God adorned with cherubic faces and fluffy wings, but some books in the Bible paint a vastly different — and much scarier ...

makes a distinction between angels and other “supernatural species” in the Bible like seraphim and cherubim, but she said she loves the biblically accurate angel trend, even if it conflates them.

But do you have this year's must-have festive tree topper – a biblically accurate angel? Yep, I hate to break it to you, but the bible does not feature angels that look like winged choirboys.