And with thy spirit!
Petosiris, I have a lot of respect for people's religious beliefs unless they actually harm someone (like the Spanish inquisition, witch burnings, and the Crusades.) I have a lot of interest in the history of western religions.
But my perspective is one of a student of comparative religion, not as someone who thinks everything in a faith's sacred scriptures are objectively real. The Bible often speaks to us in metaphors, allegory, parables, and occasionally even riddles. I think St. Augustine said this (I confess, I got him confused with someone else a while back, possibly Irenaeus on the need to read the Bible literally, vs. through the Gnostic inner experience.)
Angels have had a long and interesting history. The Biblical "heavenly host" apparently meant "host" in the sense of a large army. This makes angels akin to soldiers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavenly_host Apparently the angels of the heavenly host were equated to the stars ( Genesis 2:1 Deuteronomy 4:19.) due to a slight problem that if everything were created in the 6th days of Genesis, where would the angels come in, if separate entities?)
In the Bible, occasionally one of them takes on a human form (Joshua 5:13-15.)
Then we've got cherubim and seraphim.
I just see too many parallels between Jewish & Christian heavenly beings and the lore of older civilization, some of them ancestral to Judaism, to think that the J-C angels were not simply part of an ambient Near Eastern lore that nobody much questioned or criticized. Why the wings? Makes sense for sky-dwelling beings?? There's some ecology here, too, where the high-flying vulture-- sacred in ancient Egypt-- literally conducted the dead to whatever afterlife awaited them (Cf. Zoroastrian towers of silence.)
Today, however, we understand stars to be giant balls of burning gases. Human-like winged creatures seem imaginative, not literal.
Metaphorically, the idea of religious leaders (like Elijah, in Jewish belief) taken up to heaven without their bodies literally dying may simply point to something indestructible about their message to humanity.
(In the Bible Moses died a physical death, but the location of his burial is unknown. This was probably to prevent the Israelites from worshiping at his tomb.)
If you want to get dualistic about it, I'd vote on the side of the Christian heaven being uncorporeal. Put differently, it exists in Christian minds, hearts, belief, traditions, and imagery. But is dualism even the way to go here?
Hag sameach (a joyful holiday to you.)