There's a tendency in human nature to store things. And it's the same with the false beliefs that suggest we are material beings subject to limitation, sickness, and death. We put these misconceptions away in our mental closet and save them for another day. Then we sometimes wonder why difficulties reappear. It's much more helpful to dispose of what is worthless and then be free from the liability that some particular error, or belief, will show up in our experience.
Christian Science teaches that causation is mental, that errors of belief held in consciousness tend to appear in bodily expression. It also teaches us how to destroy these beliefs and eliminate them from our lives. Truth destroys error even as light destroys darkness. The understanding of the true nature of God and man uncovers and disposes of the wrong concepts that result in sin, disease, and death. It's a warfare with the flesh and all the claims of materialism.
In some of the accounts and statements about warfare in the Old Testament, we read of the people's being instructed to annihilate the enemy, that is, not to leave any enemy to fight another day. This may be an indication of what our attitude should be toward the errors of our day. We should not leave a single enemy standing—not leave a shred of belief in error. Dispose of it cleanly and thoroughly. Destroy the enemy—which, of course, is mortal mind, mortal beliefs, sin, disease, fears.
