seatbelts (was Re: Men and Emotions)

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Bro. Brown wrote:
>>>
I successfully evaded the skunk, but got a wheel over the edge of the
pavement where they had just put in a new water main.  The soft dirt
rendered the steering wheel a useless ornament.  I ended up sideways,
then started doing barrell rolls at 55 MPH and zero altitude.  *Neither
my wife, daughter, nor myself had seat belts on.*  We all walked away
from the accident that totalled the car.  Even after rolling like
that, the doors still opened and closed easily with their usual solit
"thunk".  Everyone who saw the caar said we should have been killed.
<<<(emphasis mine)

What a wonderful testimony!  Praise the Lord that he kept his hand on you
through that accident!  However, I have to ask, what on earth were you guys
doing driving at 55 mph with no seatbelt on???  At least in Ohio, it is a
state law that you must have a seatbelt on. Is it a law where you are (just
curious)?  You were going the speed limit (I think), and obeying that law,
doesn't it then follow that the belts should have been on too (if it's the
law where you are--I don't know)?

[Official end of addressing Bro. Brown personally.]

I've heard of other Apostolics who don't where seatbelts *in spite of* laws
in their area.  I'm not sure, but isn't there a Biblical precident for
obeying the laws in your "land" as long as they don't conflict with obeying
God?  Deliberately refusing to put on seatbelts reminds me an awful lot of
the logic of those snake handlers (NOT trying to re-open *that* issue, just
making a personal observation).  We all drive on the right side of the
street in the US, don't we?


Anyway, I was just concerned that others might see no point in seatbelts
because of other similar testimonies they've heard.
Anneliese