This is one of the most strangest Bible verses I've ever come across during the time I was a Christian and even now, it's a pretty bizarre statement aside from coming across similar mythological beings in the vast Pantheon of gods and demigods of the ancients, such as Medusa for example, where looks and a gaze would turn you into solid stone and for all intents and purposes quite dead.
But I'm curious what Christian apologetics would say on the matter.
Why would you die if you were to look upon a god purported to be good and holy?
Unfortunately, most of the Christian explanations go way off track and it almost always leads away from the question at hand into to a sermon on love and such, taking the focus almost completely away from the verse explaining how exactly a gaze could kill you.
So far the best attempted explanation I've come across so far, was an association made with vampires that if the bright sunlight hits you you would turn to dust and crumble away because you were so gosh-darn evil and that God comparatively is regarded as being the sunlight, and the people imbued with evil are the vampires whom essentially would crumble and die in the gods presence. Doesn't sound too nice if you are a vampire.
Anyways it's a crazy sounding Old testament verse among many.
Any apologists want to take a crack at this?
Why would you die if you saw God's face?