Are sins sinful because they are inherently acts of badness or because they are acts of disobedience against god?
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All sin is such not because the act it's self is inherently evil (although it could be) but because it is something other than what is perfect. The definition of the word sin is missing the mark. meaning the goal is perfection and you didn't achieve this. We see this in Romans 3:23
All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
We also see in James 4:17 if anyone knows to do good, and does not do it, it is sin. We also see in Isaiah 64:4-9 the righteousness of man is like filthy rags (or more graphically, used tolite paper). Meaning the very best man can achieve without God, is still grotesque in comparison with God's standard of perfection. So in that since all sin is equal.
But it stands to reason that disobedience is really the archetype for destructive sin, since it moves sin away from falling short of good to willingly doing the oposite, Since God is telling us that something is not perfect and we decide to do it anyway. I would say that yes that sin is worse because it is the embodiment of sin. But all sin is still falling short of the glory of God, so in that since all sin is equal.
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