having trouble finding where Scripture clearly and explicitly states that individual apostolic succession is a primary and essential mark of the one true church....
Christian Scripture, unlike the Koran, was not dictated by God and God did not dictate the canon. The Bible is a product of, was defined by, The Church, F, not the other way around.
FALSE. Scripture was recognized as such LONG BEFORE it was formally canonized by the church. The church simply formally recognized and acknowledged what was already accepted.
Now this theology of course cannot be acceptable to Protestants because it necessarily means that the one of the foundations of Protestantism, the “invisible church” cannot possibly exist.
Oh, that's not a Protestant doctrine...not anymore anyway. The Roman Catholic Church affirms the very same...they just don't CALL it that. True believers outside the institutional Roman Catholic Church are considered in union (albeit imperfectly) with the One True Church. IOW, "they're in union with the Church....but not visibly....but there's no invisible body of believers!" :)
It doesn’t do much for the 16th century notion of sola scriptura either.
Every argument about the nature of the church and the nature of Scripture itself ultimately comes back around to Scripture. The debate stalls out once the issue reaches its true core: who or what do you put your trust in?