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1 Timothy 6:16
Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.

Jesus himself stated:

John 5:37
And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.

Note:
In the Old Testament those who are described as having ‘seen’ God had in fact seen the ‘Angel of Yahweh’. God himself declared:’Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live’ (Exodus 33:20).

• It was in this form that God appeared to Manoah (Judges 13.19-23)
• Also Moses and the elders of Israel who ‘saw’ God (Exodus 24.9-11 & Exodus 33.18-23)
• It was the angel of Yahweh that wrestled with Jacob (Genesis 32.24-30) and shared a meal with Abraham (Genesis 18.1-8)

Notice also that Jesus added to the fact that God was invisible, stating that he is also inaudible:

John 5:37
And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.

So how can they have heard his voice giving the 10 commandments?

Exodus 20:1-2
1 And God spake all these words, saying, 2 And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

Deacon Stephen explains:

Acts 7:38
This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

Once more, it was the angel of Yahweh. So if Jesus was both seen and heard. How can he be God? The man Christ Jesus is the means by which the God who cannot be seen chooses to reveal himself, to man by man.
This was both the plan of God and Israel’s request when the glory of God appeared on Mount Sinai.

Exodus 20:18-19
And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. 19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

In response, God promised them:

Deuteronomy 18:15-19
15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; 16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. 17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. 18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. 19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

So Moses was a type of the prophet who was to come. He was a symbol of what Christ would be.  Moses was absolutely human, yet both walked in the power of God and brought Israel the word and law of God:

John 1:17
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Moses and Jesus have much in common, for example:

• In both cases their birth was opposed by the ruler of the day, resulting in a massacre of infants.
• Both were lawgivers and saviours of their people.
• Both were rejected by the Israel the first time they came to deliver them
• Christ will come back the second time in the power of God and his judgement, just as Moses did on his return to Egypt.
• Both fasted for 40 days and nights (Moses did this twice)

Not only that, but both performed a great number of miracles and wonders, many of which were similar:

• Moses turned water into blood,
• Jesus turned water into wine
• Moses miraculously fed Israel with Mannah in the wilderness,
• Jesus miraculously fed the 5,000 in the wilderness
• Moses parted the waters of the Red Sea
• Jesus commanded the storm to be still and walked on the waters of the sea of Galilee

When Moses went up Mount Sinai the second time in order to receive some replacement stone tablets for the ones he broke, he asked God:
“I beseech thee, shew me thy glory” (Exodus 33:18). After the glory of God had passed before Moses, the Bible tells us that his face also shone.

Exodus 34:29-30
29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. 30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.

This glory upon Moses did not mean that he was the source of the glory. What the Israelites saw, indeed what frightened them so much that Moses had to wear a veil over his face, was the reflection of God’s glory. The face of Moses became a mirror for the glory of God and shone in the same way as the moon does when it reflects the light of the sun. So Jesus, the prophet like Moses, also ascended a mountain and shone with the glory of God:

Matthew 17:1-2
1 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.