Q
Jesus is God in the flesh, but what was he like physically, if that’s the right word to use, before the incarnation? I ask this also because of the appearances of God in the OT, yet we are also told in John 1:18 and John 6:46 that no one has seen God, so is it safe to say that it was Jesus whom they saw?
A
That’s correct. Even Moses was not allowed to look upon the face of God but was hidden in the cleft of the Rock while He passed by. (Exodus 33:18-23) Jesus made several Old Testament appearances, usually described as The (not an) Angel of the Lord, but we’re not given a physical description. In John 14:9 Jesus told His disciples that having seen Him, they’d seen the Father.