From the view of hermeneutics, the meaning of the text is not fixed. It will always be infinitely open to the authors and interpreters with the changing meaning the co-creation of these authors and interpreters. The phenomenological slogan is "back to the things themselves". Then we can put aside the traditional authoritative interpretation of the classical texts and go back to the text itself directly. The deficiency is the key to understanding the original sin, but it is not about the ethical and legal evil, although this evil is attributable to humanity's deficiency. The deficiency means humans have an inherent or innate finiteness. People cannot be omniscient; all people have to die eventually and suffer diseases, pains or poverty etc. It is human's fate. Young people are often troubled by nihilism and all Chinese and western philosophy give answers to this question.
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