A Strange Question

While reading Rainbow Valley, the 7th book in the Anne of Green Gables series, one of the characters asks a question. He says "Can God make a stone so big He couldn't lift it Himself?"

Now, I think trying to answer this would get into theology, and I am not a theologian. Rather than trying to answer the question, I just wanted to share it. The question made me stop and think.

Honestly, my first response was "Of course He can. God can make anything!" And then I paused. After more thought, my response finished with "But God has command of everything He created, so if He wanted it moved, He could move it."

I don't have an answer for the question. I don't think we're supposed to come up with answers to questions like these. I'm perfectly content knowing there are things I shouldn't know, things I don't need to know. Still, I found the question interesting.

The character in the book who said it had only recently been talked into coming back to church, and was looking forward to asking that question of the minister. (He never does, because it isn't relevant to the story.)

I just wanted to share.
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"'For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,' declares the Lord. 'As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts" (Isaiah 55:8-9).