Under Law or Under Grace
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I have no problem admitting these things. I have a weakness in that. Please don't trample on me.
1. It says "Spirit of Grace", under Whose charge Christians are (ie, "under Grace").
2. You have to torture the text to make it not say what it clearly says--it doesn't say "principle", it says "Spirit".
Right, I'm taking you at your word, and I'm responding to you.
Again, you have to deny the obvious--ie, that "not under Law but under Grace" and "serve not in the oldness of the letter but in the newness of the Spirit" directly correspond--to uphold your view.
I invite you to believe God, but everyone can see you're not interested.
I agree with these statements that you have in quotes, but I do not know what my view is that you are referring to.
I do believe God.
LOL Whether it is capitalized or not depends on the translation
If you want to believe it's referring to God's Spirit, find a translation that uses the Capital "S", and you're fixed right up! LOL
You're denying that "under Law" and "under Grace" refer to methods of service, but Paul, right after using that phrase, says, "you serve not in oldness of the Letter [ie, the Law], but newness of the Spirit [ie, Grace]".
I don't believe that you don't believe it is referring to God's Spirit. I think you know, very well, that it does, and you just want to be obstinate.
How did the Gentiles qualify as "doers of the Law" without even knowing the Law (Ro 2:14)?
Answer:
The Spirit wrote the Law of God on their heart.
That is to say, they were serving in the newness of the Spirit.
They were not serving in the oldness of the letter.
No. They did not know God or His Spirit. Nor did they know of the old covenant.
The Spirit is called by many names--"the Spirit of Faith", "the Spirit of Grace", "the Spirit of Truth".
The Gentiles in Romans 2, it says, were "doers of the Law".
It explicitly teaches that the Spirit wrote God's Law on their hearts.
It explicitly states they were keeping God's statutes (vv26,27).