[joseph20]

You didn't find the exact name "Roman Catholic Church". Is that your complaint?

Jesus transferred His authority into Peter and the Church. He gave the "keys to the kingdom of heaven" to Peter and the Church. This is how the Catholic Church derives its authority. It was transferred from Jesus himself.

Or, do you think Jesus really meant to transfer all His authority into Rev. Timothy Lovejoy's First Church of Springfield?

Unlike the multitude of "churches" that have popped into and out of existence across the years, the Catholic Church actually traces its history back to Peter himself.

[Petronski]

Similarly, North America existed long before someone decided to call it North America.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Jesus transferred His authority into Peter and the Church.

Nope. Jesus maintains all authority over His church, as Paul tells us...

"And he (Jesus) is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence." -- Colossians 1:18

The apostles had no successors for to succeed them one needed to be a witness of Christ's resurrection...

Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection." -- Acts 1:21,22

[Manfred the Wonder Dawg]

Now you show how you simply follow the man-made history of the RCC. Christ did not found any church that man lays claim to - be it the RCC or the SBC. He founded the one true church, consisting of His sheep. We gather in local churches and call them we may.

The RCC tale of Peter and the apostolic succession is good for laugh, but not much else. It’s all made up, just like the name of your church and chair the pope sits in when he speaks “without error”.

[Marysecretary]

And they are in error.