Here's a quote from theologian Fr. Herbert McCabe,
"This is what John is talking about at the beginning of his Gospel when he calls Jesus the Word of God made flesh. Jesus is God's Word, God's idea of God, how God understands himself. He is how-God-understands-himself become a part of our human history, become human, become the first really thoroughly human part of our history - and therefore, of course, the one hated, despised, and destroyed by the rest of us, who wouldn't mind being divine but are very frightened of being human." - Herbert McCabe, God Still Matters, p. 104 (emphasis in bold mine)
It is much more comfortable for us if we imagine Christ as Apotheosis, as a man become god; after all "the gods" are up there, powerful, distant, untouchable, that's comfortable. But it's far less comfortable to say that God became man, and came to dwell in pain, weakness, and death. We like the idea divinity, up there, high above the problems of the world--it's this down here part where we struggle, with its ugliness. The Christian religion insists that it is, in fact, right here in the ugliness and weakness down here that God has chosen to dwell and identify with, in Jesus. Should we be surprised that men "who wouldn't mind being divine but are very frightened of being human" would try to undermine the Incarnation?
-CryptoLutheran