https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_El29ogZdV8
Why think our actions have this kind of connection where the magnitude of the evil depends on the kind of creature you're sinning against? Is killing a baby not as bad as killing its parent because the baby is a lesser creature and the parent is a greater creature?
And yet if anything our intuitions say preying on the powerless is the greater evil. So far from sinning against a greater being resulting in a greater sin, we might think sinning against a lesser being involves the added evil of abusing one's power or of taking advantage of someone's weakness.
Also, people, when they sin, wrong someone here on Earth. Their intentions of harm are directed at other humans or animals (or at themselves). So how is God meant to be wronged by these evils that aren't directed at him? God certainly can take offense to them, but why would murdering someone count as wronging God such that now the murder is infinitely bad? And what are the boundaries? Is shoplifting infinitely evil? Telling a lie so you don’t hurt someone’s feelings?
If God is infinitely offended by our sin, then doesn't that make God infinitely sensitive? Where's God's strength? If God is impassable, then God can’t be offended at all. If it’s a matter of accruing some kind of moral debt, then for the metaphor to make any sense, God is in full control to wipe away that debt. (Why would human sins brought about by the very limitations God stuck them with accrue a debt in the first place, I have no idea.) If it’s a matter of justice, then it’s a kind of justice I cannot make sense of. (If God wants justice, all he has to do is attach survival structures to virtue and truth. You might say this violates free will, but it doesn’t violate free will any more than free will is already violated, and even if it does at some point we have to ask whether free will is worth the cost.)
Why would God be so offended by something so little? If someone sins out of ignorance, then God understands the origins of that sin. So God knows how not personal that sin is. Why would God take such offense from something that's not personal?
Imagine if someone were to bump into me aggressively on the street and knock me to the ground, and say "Move idiot!" as he walks past. I could choose to be horribly offended by this, or I could guess that there's something wrong with this person and move on and shrug it off. It would be a failure of mine to care too much about why this person did what they did, or to take it personally when there is no reason to.
God, as the greatest possible being, should be very good at shrugging things off. But like Kuhn suggests, a God who takes everything way too personally is petulant. It looks quite silly for such a begrudging God to create creatures who he knows will do nothing but commit crimes of infinite magnitude.
Does it sound loving for a God to put us at such massive risk?