Many Christian outside of the apostolic churches find apostolic succession to be somewhat of a myth, preferring only the divine scriptures to be the source of truth for Christians. But even in my atheistic state of my life, I always found apostolic succession to be very convincing. The idea is quite simple and can be easily explained in two points.
- Jesus establishes the apostles as the leaders of the Church
- The authority of the apostles are passed down through their successors
The first point is very easy to establish we just need to look in the Gospel of Matthew.
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