Paul not under the Law - but subject to the law of Christ.

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I don't recall you defining what you mean by "general principle" even when I brought out a definition from an English dictionary that says a principle can be a comprehensive and fundamental law.

The definition in the dictionary you probably used is broader, depending on the context:
- a comprehensive and fundamental law, doctrine, or assumption
- a rule or code of conduct
- the laws or facts of nature underlying the working of an artificial device
- a primary source : ORIGIN
- an underlying faculty or endowment
- an ingredient (such as a chemical) that exhibits or imparts a characteristic quality
- a divine principle : GOD

Definition of PRINCIPLE

a comprehensive and fundamental law, doctrine, or assumption; a rule or code of conduct; habitual devotion to right principles… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

I see principles as underlying, fundamental truths or ideas. We can build values, laws or commandments upon them. But these are subjective and temporary (changing with the society).

I see no reason to change the Biblical language of Law to principle.

Systems of laws and commandments in the biblical, legal or political sense are not principles, they should be based upon good principles, however.

For example, the Mosaic Law contained some commandments based upon general moral principles that continue to be valid, though the Mosaic Law as a system does not apply to our current society, because it was meant specifically only for the ancient Israel till Christ will come.