No, I don't think that angel did either. Or else Mary wouldn't have trusted him.
[Ben] I'm glad you're helping him; that's nice of you. But... if you're an angel, of course you have to listen to God. It'd be like listening to your mom and dad.
The Muse My mom says it's because it depends on who's writing it. It's easy for 'she' to become 'he' and 'mother' to turn into 'father' if it's a man who's in charge of writing everything down and selling them, and for a long time it was just men writing everything. So 'course God turned into a guy.
She's probably pretty. If I were God and could do anything, I wouldn't be ugly on purpose. Except for if I was trying to trick people to see how nice they'd be to other ugly and sick people.