You have a good heart PS. Please consider verse 22-23 carefully. It`s plain as day if you can look at it without your preconcieved beliefs.
Just put those down for a couple of minutes.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 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.
The Law of God is a delight to Paul in verse 22.
The Law of sin is in his members (his body) verse 23, the death is sin itself (ie wages of sin), his flesh man nature and his sin is the law of sin and death.
Just put those down for a couple of minutes.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 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.
The Law of God is a delight to Paul in verse 22.
The Law of sin is in his members (his body) verse 23, the death is sin itself (ie wages of sin), his flesh man nature and his sin is the law of sin and death.
In verse 21 Paul summarises the law that he finds at work in the struggle he has described in verses 15-20: the desire to do good is matched and over-matched by the tendency to do evil.
Delight in God’s Law - such as was typical of the Jewish people is met by the force of another law. While some take this ‘other law’ to be another function of the Mosaic law itself, the word another (heteros) suggests that Paul has in mind a law distinct from the Mosaic law. This law is the force or power of sin, which Paul sets in contrast to the law of God (see also 3:27; 8:2) Paul confesses himself to be a prisoner of this law of sin, a strong indication that he is describing his past experience as a Jew under the law (contrast 8:2).
(New Bible Commentary)
Surely, in his past experience as a Jew under the law, he kept the Mosaic Law, presumably to the letter which he describes as a law of sin. So, should we delight in the Mosaic law or is it a law of sin? There seems to be a contradiction.
(Dog walk time)