I like Paul's writings even if they are hard to understand according to Peter. Nevertheless, I do see the point you are making, yet I continue to believe we are talking about 2 opposing laws differing one from another, yet are connected by a discerning non-carnal mind. Let me quote Paul, and then I'll explain what I believe he is presenting.
"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." (Romans 8:2)
Obviously the "law of the spirit" conquers the "law of sin and death." Some might say that this is not the law (Torah) according to the Hebrew writings, yet, if we go back one chapter to Romans 7, we see that Paul says the law( Torah) is spiritual, holy (set apart), good and just. Jesus even told the Pharisees that if they didn't believe the writings of Moses they would not believe what He was saying. (John 5) I will add that keeping the law does not bring salvation, only by the grace of God through Jesus Christ. I wanted to make that very clear.
Romans 7:5-7
5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. [SUP]6 [/SUP]But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
[SUP]7 [/SUP]What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Verse 5 is where I think you are coming from. Nevertheless, Paul clarifies that the law is "not" sin. Therefore it cannot be the same as the "law of sin and death." Then he explains that the spiritual aspects of God's law (Torah) illuminated his sin so he would recognize how far he was falling short.
Romans 7:21-25
[SUP]21 [/SUP]I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
[SUP]22 [/SUP]For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
[SUP]23 [/SUP]But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. (vividly clear there are 2 laws defined)
[SUP]24 [/SUP]O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
[SUP]25 [/SUP]I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Paul is talking about two different laws that are at war with each other, one in His "flesh", and another in his "mind" that serves God. One is the "law of God," and the other is the "law of sin." He makes it clear that the "law of God" exposes the "law of sin and death."
The law in Paul's mind is defined by his words in Acts 24:14..."But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:"