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"First, Apostolic Succession is right in the book of Acts. After Judas commits suicide, do they decide to stay with 11 Apostles? No. They appoint a successor."

And we never hear from the man-appointed successor again. God appoints the twelfth apostle whom we all know as Paul from tarsus. That was aa good reference!

And we never hear from the man-appointed successor again. God appoints the twelfth apostle whom we all know as Paul from tarsus. That was aa good reference!

And you don't think that could have been because the Apostles were still alive in all the books written in the New Testament? Its awfully difficult to tell of the successor to someone who hasn't even died yet.

I cannot stress this enough: read the history of Christianity.

Manuscripts as early as the second century have passages of prominent Christians detailing succession.

Irenaeus (189 A.D.)

"The blessed apostles [Peter and Paul], having founded and built up the church [of Rome] . . . handed over the office of the episcopate to Linus" (Against Heresies 3:3:3).

Tertullian (200 A.D.)

"[T]his is the way in which the apostolic churches transmit their lists: like the church of the Smyrneans, which records that Polycarp was placed there by John, like the church of the Romans, where Clement was ordained by Peter" (Demurrer Against the Heretics 32:2).

The Little Labyrinth (211 A.D.):

"Victor . . . was the thirteenth bishop of Rome from Peter" (The Little Labyrinth, in Eusebius, Church History 5:28:3).

Cyprian of Carthage (253 A.D.):

"With a false bishop appointed for themselves by heretics, they dare even to set sail and carry letters from schismatics and blasphemers to the chair of Peter and to the principal church [at Rome], in which sacerdotal unity has its source" (Letters, 59:14).

And it goes on and on like this for centuries until Martin Luther in the 16th Century. Would you like more quotes from the first Christians?