Then is my indication not true? You are not Catholic?
Now why do you see the need to defend the term “restoration,” and seem so upset that I should associate it with Joseph Smith, which historically speaking, is a well known connection?
I didn't really have to defend it, the thread thesis already did that. That association is vaporous, to say the least. Churches were using that term in its true meaning way before Joseph Smith used it - it is opponents of the groups that used the term in a derogatory way and associated it in a false sense. A shameful action, IMHO.
“Then is my indication not true? You are not Catholic?”’
For the second time, but more clearly, no, I am not.
Restoration as a term is not a particularly useful one. That is what I am trying to point out to you. The church does not need restoration. It is still here, because Christ the Lord promised that it would not fail to stand against the very gates of hell. It is still here for no other reason. Soli Deo Gloria. However, that being said, the church is in constant need of repentance, reformation, and repristination, as is every individual Christian. My only point is that every church body, denomination, faction - call it what you will - is in need of the same.