Therefore, following the holy fathers, we all with one accord teach men to acknowledge one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, at once complete in Godhead and complete in manhood, truly God and truly man, consisting also of a reasonable soul and body; of one substance with the Father as regards his Godhead, and at the same time of one substance with us as regards his manhood; like us in all respects, apart from sin; as regards his Godhead, begotten of the Father before the ages, but yet as regards his manhood begotten, for us men and for our salvation, of Mary the Virgin, the God-bearer; one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten, recognized in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, without separation; the distinction of natures being in no way annulled by the union, but rather the characteristics of each nature being preserved and coming together to form one person and subsistence, not as parted or separated into two persons, but one and the same Son and Only-begotten God the Word, Lord Jesus Christ; even as the prophets from earliest times spoke of him, and our Lord Jesus Christ himself taught us, and the creed of the fathers has handed down to us. –Council of Chalcedon (451 A. D.)

(Warning: the usual Christian disclaimers for pop cultural references apply here.)

A super being from a higher plane who is both superior and vulnerable due to her assumptin of (quasi!) humanity.

One thing that can really help a person explain the theology of the incarnation is watching the mostly paganish show Buffy the Vampire Slayer or its spin-off Angel.

In that fictional world, demons are commonly portrayed in a way that mostly resembles space aliens.  They usually come from other dimensions rather than planets (one episode in BtVS season four even crossed that line making it even harder to differentiate between fantasy and scifi) but they are pretty much creatures that could easily fit in a Star Trek episode.

But in some shows the principle is revealed that these demons have gone through alterations to come into the human plane.  They are “mixtures” or “impure” to some extent (vampires are espcially impure hybrids with human beings and thus looked down upon).  So they are superior in strength and durability usually, but they are still ultimately defeatable if one has super strength of one’s own, or the proper battle axe, or a handy source of high-voltage electricity.  Indeed, when dealing with incorporeal demonic forces, the common strategy is to find some way to get the being to materialize and then deal with the monster that results via weaponry.

This same principle holds true of higher beings or gods.  They need some sort of material “vessel” to interact with human life.  In this humanoid form they have immense power and protection, compared to the average puny mortal, but they are by definition still vulnerable.  At some point and in some way it is possible to punch out a god (or hammer her to death, etc).

All this gives us a grid for understanding Christian concerns in explaining Jesus.  Jesus was the Son of God, but unlike Heracles he had no super-powers.  The miracles he performed, contrary to public opinion, were not attributes of deity.  His disciples performed even greater ones.   When Jesus glowed at times, this was a revealing of human nature as it will be in the future (when we who are in Christ will all be beings that are greater than the gods the pagans believed in).

Jesus wasn’t superhuman.  He wasn’t a “cross” between God and man.  He was just as vulnerable to wounding as any other man, within the scope of God’s providence.  He was not a hybrid.

Christian theology gave us a new possibility: That the true God joined himself to humanity in one person without mixing or confusing the two categories into a third impossible category.  Jesus was 100 percent God and 100 percent human.

Q. 21. Who is the redeemer of God’s elect?
A. The only redeemer of God’s elect is the Lord Jesus Christ, who, being the eternal Son of God, became man, and so was, and continueth to be, God and man in two distinct natures, and one person, forever. –Westminster Shorter Catechism.