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The passage starts off with drawing a distinction between the law
“For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.”
Romans 8:2 ESV
And it appears the law, through Christ, if we remain in Him, is fulfilled in us, but the law seems to be the same law νόμος; it’s the means of execution that changes its efficacy, namely via the flesh or via the Spirit. (Please confirm or deny)
“in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.”
Romans 8:4 ESV
Romans 7:4 says we are dead to the law but 7:6 says we serve in a new way of the Spirit. Despite the righteous requirement of the law being fulfilled in us, v7 mentions
“For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.”
Romans 8:7 ESV
The antithetical of v7 appears to say that those who have their minds set on the Spirit do submit to God’s law, even though the law is already fulfilled in us. On an ongoing basis are we to continue to submit to God’s law? Or to the law of the Spirit of life? Or is the antithesis no law?
“But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.”
Romans 7:6 ESV
I’ve tried to remain ambiguous as to not inject my views into the question regarding the question about God’s law in v7
So what law/s is being spoken of and what relevance does it have to a born again believer to submit to God’s law in v7, if any, if indeed we are no longer under the law (Galatians 5:18) or is Galatians speaking of an entirely different law “works of the law” or “Miqsat Ma‘ase Ha-Torah” (MMT) from the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS)? (Are we under God’s law even after the point of conversion but not under God’s law in regards to our entrance into salvation, which is by grace through faith? The passage into salvation not being God’s law but faith.)
