Dr. Bernard, both the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church claim that their authority

can be traced in an unbroken historical line back to the 12 Apostles.

I actually found this on a Roman Catholic Apologetics website that stated explicitly

all over the world, all Catholic bishops are part of a lineage that goes back to the time of

the Apostles, something that is impossible in Protestant denominations, most of which do not even

claim to have bishops. So we know the Orthodox Church makes similar claims about their own

leadership. So this, I think the implication behind this is significant because either church,

Orthodox or Catholic, feels like that if they can prove that they have this unbroken line back

to Jesus and the Apostles, that that gives their church, and they've explicitly stated it on this

website, that gives their church an authority that no other church has.

So I want to ask you, first of all, is there any actual historical proof that there's this

unbroken line going back to the Apostles?

And if there is, does it matter?

You know, it's very interesting their claim because they're talking about aposolic succession.

Yes.

We as apostolic would say we treasure, we use the term apostolic quite a bit,

but we would say apisolic authority.

And the difference is they claim an unbroken succession historically.

Well, first of all, that is both theologically and historically false, as I'll prove.

We claim apostolic authority because we believe we go back to the doctrine of the apostles.

So they claim an unbroken historical chain called tradition.

We claim restoration. So nobody has an unbroken historical chain called tradition, we claim restoration. So nobody has an unbroken

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