[Alamo-Girl]

In the 3 underlined points in the above article, the point is carefully made that even the physical succession argument is very suspect. Check it out.

I did read it and indeed, that is a very important point. But even if there were no flaws at all, the Apostolic succession would mean nothing to me personally because the choice is God's not man's.

That was the lesson of Cornelius, the commission of Paul, the rebuke of the Scribes and Pharisees - and the operative part of this excerpt from John's Gospel (emphasis mine):

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. - John 1:12-13

[xzins]

I agree.

However, it would have been a blessing to hear that any unbroken lineage of people had remained SPIRITUALLY faithful to the Lord.
Unfortunately, they did not.

You can’t help but wonder, though....it would be a blessing for me some future day to look down from my place in that “great cloud of witnesses” who’ve crossed to the other side to see that my descendants had remained true to the faith of their fathers.