Wow, this is starting to get fast, I almost can't keep up
First as an answer on mike's question: As i said before: no i can't explain that, but maybe in the future I can.
You said the plague was just a normal disease, nothing special about it. No indeed, because you know what it is. The people that had it in the whatever century it was didn't know that and it i was pretty special for them I think.
Then second on Scorpions reply: I find it a bit hard to answer you. You use pretty weird redenations sometimes. Hitler killing 6 million Jews because he believed in reincarnation? I used to think it was because he was a sick mad-man with maybe a brain disorder.
I was a Christian as well, or maybe I never really was, but at least I was raised that way.
And why does everything have to be explained in a religion? Can't people think for themselves? There are probably quite some things unexplained in the bible as well. Does it matter?