Is God omnipotent and omniscient?

I made a post like this on my Facebook page: "There is a creator of this universe—from this, can we conclude that the creator is omniscient and omnipotent?"

In the comment section of that post, a Facebook friend wrote that if I had faith in the Upanishads, I would say that the creator of the world is omnipresent. There is no point in His created world where He is not present! He exists, or His influence is active, at every point in spacetime.

I wrote back to him: "I made this post because atheists usually assume God to be omniscient and omnipotent and then try to demonstrate what logical fallacies arise if God possesses these two attributes. By pointing out these fallacies, they arrive at the conclusion that the existence of an omniscient and omnipotent God is practically impossible. There is a huge loophole in this logic, which I hadn't been able to catch all this time. Today, I suddenly did. So, this can be considered a true breakthrough.

“Let me explain the whole thing a bit. We know a world exists. Those of us who believe in the existence of God say that this world has a creator. However, from the premise that 'this world has a creator,' one cannot conclude that the creator is omniscient and omnipotent. The creator of the world must definitely possess as much knowledge and power as is required to create a world. But that does not mean the creator has to be omniscient and omnipotent. Therefore, by incorrectly assuming the world-creator to be omniscient and omnipotent, and then showing all the logical fallacies that those concepts give rise to, one cannot claim that God does not exist. Yet, atheists have been doing exactly this for a long time.

“Of course, the entire blame for this cannot be placed on the atheists. If blame must be placed on anyone, it should be placed on those who attributed these 'Omni-characteristics' to God in the first place.”

Then the Facebook friend replied that he has understood. My logic is correct. He has heard this kind of talk from atheists before. Then he gave an example: If God is omnipotent, can He create a stone so heavy that He Himself cannot lift it! He then mentioned that his previous comment, however, spoke of Omnipresence, not Omnipotency.

I wrote back to him: "In India, Brahman is described as *Nirguna* (without attributes) and *Nirupadhika* (without qualifications). No attribute, no qualification can be imposed on Brahman. Yet, in the religions originating from the Middle East, attributes and characteristics were imposed on God one after another. And incidentally, modern science was born in a part of the world where all the influence and dominance belonged to a religion originating from the Middle East. Therefore, it became very convenient for atheists to use modern science to shatter the core narrative of that religion into pieces."

I then again commented: “Atheists do not talk much about omnipresence; the main targets of their attack are God's omniscience and omnipotence.”

Later, I made another post on my Facebook page: "All the criticisms atheists have made against God to date, by assuming God to be omniscient and omnipotent, have become hollow from today onward."