God is Spirit
When Jesus spoke with the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well, he said that God is Spirit (John 4:24). That means God is not confined to a body, a location, or the limits that belong to created things. He is present and active throughout his creation, yet he is not part of creation in the way we are.
Paul calls God invisible and eternal (1 Timothy 1:17). This does not mean God is unreal or distant. It means his divine nature cannot be fully seen, measured, or contained by human eyes. God is personal. He speaks, loves, judges, forgives, and listens. But he is not simply a larger version of a human being.
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Why does the Bible mention God’s hands and face?
The Bible often uses familiar human language for God. It speaks of his hand, eyes, face, arm, and voice. These pictures help us understand what God does: his hand can show power, his eyes show knowledge, and his face can describe favour or nearness. They are meaningful words, not careless ones.
At the same time, the context keeps us from imagining that God has an ordinary human body. When Moses asked to see God’s glory, God told him that no person could see his face and live (Exodus 33:20). Moses was allowed a limited, protected experience of God’s passing glory, not a full view of God’s divine being (Exodus 33:22-23).
And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
Jesus truly took on a body
Jesus is central to this question. John says that the Word became flesh and lived among us (John 1:14). Christians have long understood the Word to be the eternal Son. In Jesus, God did not merely appear to be human. He entered our world as a real man, born, hungry, tired, suffering, dying, and rising again.
Jesus makes the unseen God known. Paul calls him the image of the invisible God (Colossians 1:15). That does not mean the Father is physically shaped like Jesus. It means Jesus perfectly reveals God’s character and authority. If you want to know what God’s compassion, holiness, mercy, and truth look like in action, look closely at Jesus.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
The risen Jesus was not a ghost
After his resurrection, Jesus showed his disciples that he was not a spirit or an illusion. He invited them to see and touch him, pointing to his flesh and bones (Luke 24:39). So the Christian answer needs both parts: God in his divine nature is Spirit, while Jesus the Son truly took human flesh and rose bodily.
This leaves room for reverence as well as confidence. We cannot picture or master God as though he were an object in the world. Yet God has made himself known, especially through Jesus. Read the Gospel accounts with that question in mind. They show not every mystery about God, but they show his heart clearly.