Gen 3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
This does not prove that it is the Son.
Jesus did not have a physical body prior to creation.
Anyone of the 3 could appear in human form for all of them had that capability.
The Hebrews only believed in one God the Father.
And the Father did not rebuke them for this.
And there was no trinity made known to the Hebrews.
We do not see a God the Son as being someone to be acknowledged clearly.
And the Spirit is not seen as another person but the Spirit of God.
A trinity is not clear like in the New Testament.
It would seem like it would be the Father that would have dealt with Adam and Eve.
Isa 52:4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
Isa 52:5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
God said He would reveal a new name to the Jews and speak to them.
Joh 14:7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Joh 14:8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
Joh 14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
Joh 14:10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
Joh 5:43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Jesus told Philip if you he has seen Him then He has seen the Father.
And the words that He speaks are not His words but the Father's words.
Which Jesus came in His Father's name.
So the Father revealed His new name and spoke to them.
I believe it was the Father in the garden.
All 3 can show a visible image image of themself.
And Jesus as God is bigger than that human body so any of the 3 could show a visible image.
Jesus did not have a physical body before creation.
And Him showing Himself in a visible image as the Messiah does not mean that a physical image in the Old Testament has to be Him.
Joh 14:7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
If you have seen Jesus then you have seen the Father.
Joh 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Joh 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Jesus said the Spirit is there with them, and shall be in them.
Jesus was the one with them and said He will come to them.
So one could say the image of God in the garden was the representation of all 3.
Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
Rom 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
Col 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Col 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
Adam is the image of God.
Adam is the figure of Jesus.
The image of God is the image of Christ.
So let us make man in our image has to include the man Christ Jesus for He is part of that image.
For people that think let us make man in our image is a plurality of persons in one God the man Christ Jesus is in that image.
And if a plurality of persons in one God then Adam would have to be an image of all 3.
