God's face...

Has any human ever seen the face of God? Well, that's a tough question. There are many places in the Bible where it seems that God is present during face-to-face encounters with human beings.  But, the Bible also states:
No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known. John 1:18 ESV (the ancient manuscripts use a word that can also mean unique or one-of-a-kind where the English word only is placed in the above verse, the same ancient word, meaning only, is used in John 1:14)


Huh? The first part of this verse, No one has ever seen God, is speaking of God the Father.  The second part of this verse, the only God, who is at the Father's side, is speaking of Jesus, or God the Son.  Jesus is at the Father's side, because He always was, or as John states in an earlier verse, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1 ESV). If you go back to the beginning of the Bible in Genesis, you will find this verse, Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” (Genesis 1:26 ESV). Did you see the US and the OURs? So, God the Son, Jesus, the Word, has always been, He was there in the beginning with God the Father.  And also, in the beginning, in Genesis, there is another Being, the third part of the "always was". God the Spirit is revealed in these verses, 1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. (Genesis 1:1-2 ESV) In the story of creation in Genesis, we have only 3 super natural beings, none others are mentioned, besides animals, and then humans when Adam and Eve were created. The Trinity is present in the beginning, God the Father, God the Son and God the Spirit. We know that God the Spirit is present with us now, because Jesus said he would leave us with Him, but we can't physically see Him. The Bible, the inerrant Word of God, says that no man has ever seen God the Father. But many people saw, mingled with, ate with,  fellowshipped with, learned from, eventually hanged on the cross, and then witnessed in resurrection, God the Son. At the end of John 1:18, he tells us that God the Son (Jesus), has made God the Father known to us. When you know Jesus, you know God. This is the New Testament, the Gospel, the Good News about God, the Messiah, the Son of God, the Son of Man, the Saviour, come to earth to mingle with little old us.

So, yes, man has visually seen/saw God, in God the Son. How about God the Father, have any humans ever seen His face? Again, John 1:18 says no, but what about Abraham, Moses, Jacob? Who did Abraham serve food to and talk with? Who did Moses see and talk with? Who did Jacob talk to and actually touch? That's another Bible study.