The Ethnic Angel Playing the Violin
is about 4 inches tall. These Ethnic Angel Ornaments will also stand alone on a shelf or mantle and make beautiful Birthday Gifts. The adorable Angel has long pig tails and is dressed in an ivory gown with gold around the neck, cuffs, waist and hem. She has an ivory apron with pale yellow and green flowers sprinkled with iridescent glitter, carved on the front. She is playing a brown Violin. The little African American People Angels wings are ivory, sprinkled with iridescent glitter. The Ethnic Angels are made of poly resin carved to look like wood. Select to see a complete listing of our Christmas Decorations Ideas.

Angels.
According to many religions an angel is a spiritual being created by God. The word angel comes from a Greek word meaning messenger or one who is sent. According to religious tradition, angels live in heaven and act as God’s servants and as messengers between God and human beings. They also serve as guardians of individuals and nations. Angels traditionally are pictured as having a human body and wings. Poets and artists have portrayed angels as symbols of innocence or virtue.
In some religions, legends tell of bright, powerful spirits that appear in dreams and visions and protect people or tribes. In Hinduism and Buddhism, many major gods are accompanied by a band or court of spiritual beings.
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam developed the most elaborate doctrines about angels. These religions recognize an order of beings in which angels rank above human beings but under God. God is all powerful and the human is sometimes portrayed as in Gods image.
The concept of angels with a human body and wings began in the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament, and in Christianity. Later tradition refers to many archangels, angels of high rank, including Saint Michael.
Christian doctrine regarding angels reached full development during a AD 1100’s and 1200’s especially in the teachings of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Aquinas believed angels were necessary to fill the gap between God and human beings. He taught that countless numbers of angels existed and that they were immortal. According to Aquinas, angels knew everything except what depended on human choice and what was known only to God.
The Islamic belief in angels resembles that of Judaism and Christianity. These three faiths place angels near God and give special duties to some.
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