Angels are celestial (non-human) beings who are sent to earth by god as messengers. Ghosts are the souls of dead humans that haunt the place where they died. Besides being supernatural, fictional beings, they don't really have much in common IMO.
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So according to the abrahamic texts Angels are spiritual immortal beings created by god to carry out his bidding, they never held a normal mortal body at any point.
It was not until the late 18th century that the idea of the dead becoming angels upon arrival in heaven was widely adopted, often attributed to the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg who wrote such and claimed to be the christ's divinely inspired reformist.
With that preface in mind, a ghost is a haunting on earth and an angel is somebody who passed on to another plane of existence (specifically the good place).
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Ghosts haven't been sucked off yet.
One deal holy damage, another do ghost damage.
While ghosts dont exist, angels really dont exist.
One is a mythical creature that doesn’t have genitals and wears a really bright thing on their heads.
The other is a mythical creature that goes bump in the night.
They are spelled differently.
Angels were never human, and act as messengers of the divine. They sometimes tell you not to be afraid of them.
Ghosts may or may not have been human, generally don't communicate, sometimes scare people, generally more active at night.
Why not chronically overidentify with an architype and find out first hand?