[pgyanke]

The final authority is God. No man or group of men can get there, only make arguments.

Do you deny God's authority to grant authority to whom He chooses?

Matthew 28:18-20 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

>”teaching them to observe all that I commanded you”

Is there something Christ commanded besides what is in Scripture and from what authority?

[American Constitutionalist]

Jesus Christ, fully God, fully man in the flesh ( in body here in earth the first time ) was and is God in the flesh.

[boatbums]

Do you deny God's authority to grant authority to whom He chooses?

Of course God can do that and He DOES do that, however, where do we find God granting authority to anyone to grant the SAME authority to other people? The ONLY Apostolic succession we know of is the succession of the message and not the OFFICE of Apostle, and certainly not the same authority Jesus personally gave to the Apostles.