So, your assertion is that Roman Catholicism can make a claim which cannot be found within Scripture, and your group accepts it with our question (as long as it supports the ridiculous proscriptions therein!)?
Where did Jesus make bishops? Scripture reference, please...
It’s astounding that intelligent people don’t see the fallacy of the so called line of successors.
You give more credit than deserved! Indoctrinated peoples do not question the "authority", and within that cult, they risk excommunication. To me, that would be a good thing that may cause them to actually seek God's Word, with the guidance of His Holy Spirit (as He promised).
There is no Papal succession. There is only a long line of pretenders to God's Throne!
((Where did Jesus make bishops?**
Paul ordained Bishops. Have you read 1 and 2 Timothy lately.
Christ ordained the apostles by breathing on them and giving them the power to forgive and bind sins.
JOHN 20
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19 On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you."
20 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.
21 Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you."
22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.
23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained."
Unnoticed by you is the fact that “Acts” is the only “book” that gives anything like a Chronological account the the early Church. So how is the failure to mention this relevant to what is above? The New Testament amounts to sources relating to the early Church. You can disputes how they are related to similar sources from later times, which have led to the writing of the history of the Church, which though they have not the privleged position of Holy Scripture, are as truly sources to be respected. But all together are like a small library, but still limited in scope. fragments. We have to take so much on faith, like Luther, who not really a revisionist. Revisionists are so much more inventors of fiction, because they think that science can raise the dead past when it can only unearth its bones.