“Roman Catholic Christians believe that Christ’s teaching authority and truth charism continues in His Body the Church in the successors both of Peter and then the apostles, and then to their successors: the successor of Peter in the Bishop of Rome, and the successors of the apostles, the episcopoi or bishops from apostolic time to the present.”
Yes, I know what Roman Catholics believe about this. My question is: Where do you find the basis for this belief in the Holy Scriptures? None of the citations you provide answer this question. Just because you want it to be so and say it is so, doesn’t make it so. Where is what you assert taught clearly and unambiguously?
Where do you get the idea that the Holy Spirit opened a window of Apostolic influence and guidance with the Catholic Church just long enough to permanently establish Scripture in the compilation of the works you call the bible? Is that Scripturally supported?
“Where is what you assert taught clearly and unambiguously?”
I wonder if you are just trying to pull my leg ... or are just a doubting Thomas until Christ tells you directly.
There are many quotes from the New Testament that directly and repeatly answer that question:
Mt 16:18
And so I say to you, you are “Rock”, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.
Mt 16:19-20
I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Jn 20:21
(Jesus) said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”
Mt 10:40
Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.
Lk 10:16
Whoever listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.
Mt 28:18-20
Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”
Christ is revealed instituting a perpetually enduring truth-teaching, truth-handling authority in the Apostles.
Mt 28:20
... teaching them (all nations) to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.