Are you for or against the separation of church and state?

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Sin is the absence of love. It is one's choice to expel God from one's heart so that all that's left is basic self-promoting instinct. Some verses that support this:

You're missing my point: it's a binary choice. Either god created man with the capacity to sin, in which case he is responsible for sin given that it exists within a universe for which he is the creator of every individual part, or sin exists without any input from god, hence making it a thing that began to exist without a creator.

Either god- the thing these theistic apologetics attributes as the creator of all things in the universe- created sin, or he did not. Those are literally the only choices here. If it is the former, he is responsible for sin. If it is the latter, then the bible makes reference to something existing that god didn't create.