So in the original text, the Bible is ambiguous? Where else in the Bible does the original text support multiple interpretations?
First of all, the only place dead Jesus went the day he died, was Not any Paradise, but Jesus went to Hell.
The living Jesus made the promise on the day he died, or ' today, you will be (future tense) with me in paradise'.
Both Jesus and the thief went to hell the day they died - Acts of the Apostles 2:27.
So, Jesus was telling the thief on 'their day of death' (today) that in the future the thief would have a resurrection.
That is also why the ' future tense' is used at Acts of the Apostles 24:15 that there 'is going to be' a resurrection.....
A resurrection of both the righteous and unrighteous. So, that thief would be part of the future happy-and-healthy physical resurrection of the unrighteous. Meaning he could gain everlasting life on a beautiful paradisical Earth as Eden originally was.
Just as Adam was offered everlasting life on Earth as long as he did Not break God's law, so the resurrected back-to-life thief will be offered everlasting life on Earth during Jesus' 1,000-year reign over Earth if he chooses to obey God.