Atheists: Does it do you or anyone else the slightest bit of good to ask...?

These kind of questions may be a more gentle way to try to get theists to face reality, but if they were able to reason like that, they would not be theists in the first place. So it's probably a waste of time.---The minute they sense that you're trying to guide them, their minds will snap shut, and they will become preoccupied with inventing excuses, and trying to twist what the Bible says, in order to believe what they WANT to believe for self-serving reasons.