My daily reading from "A Year with C.S. Lewis" was from his book "Mere Christianity." He wrote: The Second Person in God, the Son, became human Himself: was born into the world as an actual man - a real man of a particular height, with hair of a particular colour, speaking a particular language, weighing so many stone. The Eternal Being, who knows everything and who created the whole universe, became not only a man but (before that) a baby, and before that a fetus inside a woman's body. If you want to get the hang of it, think how you would like to become a slug or a crab.
I do not think Lewis is comparing man to a slug, but rather what it must be like to go from being a creature such as ourself to something like that. Though not a perfect analogy to God coming to earth through Christ, still, the point is well made.
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