There are those that would say that God punishes people for sin but I believe in the concept that the "wages of sin is death". I believe God was active in the Old Testament age, but is passive in the New Testament age.
I believe with Jesus's death on the cross, and the New Testament added to the Old Testament (complete Bible) the active intervention of God on earth was halted. We are now in a period of grace (withholding judgement) where people choose to accept Jesus Christ as Lord/Savior and commit to following the commandments/doctrines of the Bible and will be in heaven with God, or reject Jesus Christ and spend eternity in hell. At the end of the period of grace, judgement will come.
I believe the day of judgement will come when America totally rejects God.
On the bases of the wages of sin being disease, death and destruction, I offer the following discussion which basically says overpopulation is the cause of most poverty and the probably the black death plague.
I believe overpopulation is cause by Atheists and not by Christians because Christians should be following the following verse not only for providing for, but producing children.
I Timothy 5:8 states, "But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel."
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A Malthusian crisis
Black Death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In addition, various historians have adopted yet another theory for the cause of the Black Plague, one that points to social, agricultural, and sometimes economic causes. Often known as the Malthusian limit, scholars use this term to express, and/or explain, certain tragedies throughout history. In his 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population, Thomas Malthus asserted that eventually humans would reproduce so greatly that they would go beyond the limits of food supplies; once they reached this point, some sort of "reckoning" was inevitable. While the Black Death may appear to be a "reckoning" of this sort, it was in fact an external, unpredictable factor and does not therefore fit into the Malthusian theory. In his book, The Black Death and the Transformation of the West, David Herlihy explores this idea of plague as an inevitable crisis wrought on humanity in order to control the population and human resources. In the book The Black Death; A Turning Point in History? (ed. William M. Bowsky) he writes "implies that the Black Death's pivotal role in late medieval society... was now being challenged. Arguing on the basis of a neo-Malthusian economics, revisionist historians recast the Black Death as a necessary and long overdue corrective to an overpopulated Europe."
Herlihy examines the arguments against the Malthusian crisis, stating "if the Black Death was a response to excessive human numbers it should have arrived several decades earlier" due to the population growth of years before the outbreak of the Black Death. Herlihy also brings up other, biological factors that argue against the plague as a "reckoning" by arguing "the role of famines in affecting population movements is also problematic. The many famines preceding the Black Death, even the 'great hunger' of 1314 to 1317, did not result in any appreciable reduction in population levels". Herlihy concludes the matter stating, "the medieval experience shows us not a Malthusian crisis but a stalemate, in the sense that the community was maintaining at stable levels very large numbers over a lengthy period" and states that the phenomenon should be referred to as more of a deadlock, rather than a crisis, to describe Europe before the epidemics.
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