Hoops wrote:by the way, the first chapter of Acts is referring to apostolic appointment, not succession.
Now you're just equivocating.
I pull in resolution and begin To doubt th' equivocation of the fiend That lies like truth.
All the Best!
--Consiglieri
If you say so. Nonetheless, the passage to which you referring is only to replace Judas and get to the original number of twelve. It says nothing about, in fact there's nothing in the Bible that says anything about, successive apostles. The criteria for being an apostle being difficult to achieve after the first group has ceased.