[HarleyD]

If someone finds I have misrepresented the Catholic faith and is able to show that, I must humbly submit my obedience to this teaching.

Well, well. I guess we don't have "free will" after all. ;O)

This is precisely what I stated in post #5705:

Apostolic succession simply one who follows the Church's teaching. Thus, if the Church states something to be true, and if someone preaches what the Church states to be true, then what they say is true, is true once the Church says that what they preach is true.

While I wrote this tongue-in-cheek, it is a circular argument. I will agree there are certain core truths of the scripture. These can only be confirmed through the hard evidence of the scripture. All other teaching is suspect.

[jo kus]

I guess we don't have "free will" after all. ;O)

My will remains free - it is my intellect that depends on the Church's teachings... I can freely disregard what my intellect tells me as true if I choose not to believe the Church. This explains why Protestants refuse to come home. The intellect tells them the Church is true, but the will refuses to believe it is so.

Regards

[annalex]

do you understand by now that the apostolic succession is quite simply, transmission of apostolic authority from bishop to bishop, starting with one of the Apostles, through the sacrament of the Holy Orders? The intellectual ability to preach is only loosely connected to it.