OK. But what you're saying calls for a re-statement of a different idea. Anyone who holds that a "Restoration" was needed sorta has an obligation to explain why.
Sure I can think of some people who it seems reached a higher state without knowing about or needing a "Restoration"..... Corrie Ten Boom, Elizabeth Elliot.... probably scores of others across the past 100 years alone.....
My great Aunt told me "A man's reach should exceed his grasp"..... not that we should consider ourselves failures at all, but that it is as essential to life as breath, as air, water, and food, for the human soul to aspire towards the unattainable. But the essential fact of the Restoration, in LDS theological terms, is knowing what to reach for. Sure, the LDS Church has sorta lost it, trying too hard to be like other Christians, trying not to offend, trying to pretend not to be special. . . .
It is that aspect of Mormonism that I referred to, and don't apologize for.
