Wait a minute. Are you one of those people who actually thinks the “Unbroken line of popes” as you call it is dependent upon time? ROFLOL! Amazing. You actually think an interregnum somehow effects an unbroken succession? LOL! I can’t believe it. Yet another straw man. You attack what you don’t even know and wonder why we can’t see what you think only you can see. In reality only you can see it because you’ve dreamed it up. The unbroken line of popes has nothing to do with the time between popes holding office. It has EVERYTHING to do with the holding of the office. Each and every pope admitted holding the same office - being a successor of Peter. It doesn’t matter how many centuries are between the pope and St. Peter or between any two popes! It doesn’t matter one bit whether there was a pope in 305. It only matter that there was a pope before then and after then both holding the same office and leading the Catholic Church. There is ALWAYS a time gap between one pope and another. Sometimes the gap is days. Sometimes it is years. No few years years or months or days, however, effects an “Unbroken line of Popes”, however, because it is the popes themselves who make it unbroken by what they hold as an office not WHEN they hold it.
Once again, I have been surprised. Just when I think I have seen or heard every sort of silly, ill-informed, even bizarre attack against Christ and His Church some Protestant somewhere comes up with a new one which is usually nothing more than misunderstanding wrapped in ignorance. Wow. I haven’t laughed that hard in a while. Thanks. Seriously, I’m out of breath from laughing so hard. You actually thought an interregnum effected the papal succession! LOL!
Actually I expected this type of ad hominem attack. Those without an answer must either feign anger or laughter. No matter, the rant is transparent.
The entire early list, beginning with the imaginary "Popehood" of Peter is a fiction with no historical proof whatsoever. Now the argument that the time gaps, many consisting of 2-4 years, between "Popes" is meaningless.
That's ok. Fiction is a reputable profession. Claiming fiction is fact is another story.
No few years years or months or days, however, effects an “Unbroken line of Popes”, however, because it is the popes themselves who make it unbroken by what they hold as an office not WHEN they hold it.
This is amazing. Let's see if I understand.
1. There is no Pope for four years.
2. The dead Pope fills the office.
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3. The as yet unnamed Pope fills the office.
----------------or--------------BR> 4. Fact isn't important. We say so and that's it!
Carry on.
Well for whatever it’s worth, the time to me is meaningless as well, I have more questions about the time there were TWO of them holding the same office.