Its not the passage in Greek is ambiguous.The Word of God is quite plain about the process God uses to bring people to Himself
Again your particular preferred interpretation of Christianity which itself just one particular variant of the larger body of Abrahamic religions... As per usual I find your chosen view of original unsupported by the OT. I find it both illogical or the actions of any kind of just god. And even if I allowed it to accurate for the sake of argument I find it even more illogical that deity of infantine power and scope would devise only one really convoluted way in which to draw people to him in all of time a way that necessarily unfairly excluded many people.men like RC Sproul, John MacArthur, Alistair Begg, John Metcalfe, James White and many others on Youtube preaching about it. There is only one way a person can be saved and that is to be drawn to Jesus Christ through the Gospel, realising how deep in sin they are that their heart is broken by the Spirit making it possible for rebirth to take place. Oh the time, the place, the situation may be different but the experience is just the same.
Not in any empirical way. Just as you can't verify the experiences of Joseph SmithThere are plenty of people having been born again of the Spirit of God can verify my experience by their own.
And I can equally find honest and faithful people preaching about Catholicism, Islam Mormonism, Buddhism, Judaism, the beliefs of the First Nations...RC Sproul, John MacArthur, Alistair Begg, John Metcalfe, James White and many others on Youtube preaching about it
You also dodged addressing the text directly. Thus why would very well paid Roman soldiers throw lots for rags. Rather than the authors of NT authors fitting in the nominal fulfillment of some passage in the OT.