Stuff and nonsense.
True authority is founded in God, whether any human recognizes it or not.
Moses, Elijah, Jesus, Peter, and more all had credibility and it was upon that credibility that their authority was founded.
Nonsense again. They had true authority because God gave it to them, and for no other reason. It had nothing to do with something so amorphous and ephemeral as "credibility".
So ... the rest of your post is meaningless.
True authority is founded in credibility.
God has credibility.
A Marine Corps sergeant with twenty years of service has credibility.
But a child raping bishop has no credibility and only a damned fool would recognize such a POS as having any authority.
By the way, God recognizes credibility, too.
Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. (Luke 16:10)
I’m guessing Luke would’ve made a pretty bad Catholic.