Be assured more could be added, but the point here is that no matter how manifestly and extensively corrupt and fractured Rome has and can become, then RCs seem to imagine a unified church always looking to an infallible supreme head in Rome (unseen in Scripture), and a all-holy church in Mary from which Biblical separation (2Co. 6:14-18) could never be compelled, and mo matter how long it remains with no successor or uncertainty as to one, then this is still defined as unbroken succession.
Just keep up that illusion of yours...I think that I'll stick with what most Christians on Earth know is the truth.
Year after year, people come out of wherever and decide to advance new and sometimes bizarre theories of how salvation works. They try to deny the apparent and documented....they reinterpret teachings and situations to better serve the views that they espouse. I guess that everyone is free to do whatever they wish, and many on this thread have decided that they can do it themselves....O.K. for them, more power to them, but I don't have enough guts to denounce thousands of years of Christian teachings and go off on my own trying to reinvent Christianity....