[mas cerveza por favor]

That they did attempt.... but God had another in mind and in His time, not mans. Men do have a need to determine how they will go about doing Gods work without First consulting Him if the action itself is His will. In this case they jumped ahead of God, and as we see Matthias is hardly if at all mentioned in scripture thereafter. The stretch one has to make using Peter, does not suit the scripture context...rather to do this twists the meaning.

This is pure subjective conjecture. The objective fact is that the inspired writer recorded the Apostolic succession for posterity. There is nothing to indicate this was not God's will.

[caww]

This would, of course, depend on the eyes of faith one sees thru...be it thru the eyes of Christ... or that of men whose faith is placed elsewhere.

[Iscool]

There is nothing to indicate this was not God's will.

Sure there is...ALL of the Apostles were hand picked by Jesus...NOT chosen by human beings...

Act 1:2 Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:

These disciples were not at the time filled with the Holy Ghost...Jesus did not instruct them to find another Apostle...

[RnMomof7]

This is pure subjective conjecture. The objective fact is that the inspired writer recorded the Apostolic succession for posterity. There is nothing to indicate this was not God's will.

Or that it was His perfect will.. We can not make doctrine out of silence ...

After the indwelling Holy Spirit we do not read of any further "succession"do we?