We have to get into questions about what “looked” means in the context.
This would be spiritual looking, I believe. One would encounter nothing but condemnation, nothing but shortcomings found, before the Lord when still divorced from His apprising of what was good and evil and thrown back on one’s own finite, mortal reason about it. One could only be killed by such a “view.”
This does not contradict the Christian story. The Lord, through humility (He is never forced by external agency to do so) can choose to embrace physical manifestations for the sake of a lost and straying mankind.
“We have to get into questions about what “looked” means in the context.”
I figured you would say that. Whatever is counter to your set of beliefs, spiritualize it into oblivion.
Moses said “Let me see your glory”. He did not have spiritual looking in mind, the Bible never mentions spiritual looking in that manner.
God let him see Him from the rear. In another case, they saw God’s feet. Moses talked with God face to face, although God was surrounded by a fog so Moses could not see him.
God visited Abraham and had a meal with him, just before he took a look around Sodom.