The Hebrew scriptures were considered to be the written record of prophets, kings, judges and priests. They recorded how God had moved among them. They were not canonized because of mythical attributes, but because they were an authoritative history.
Paul says:
- 2Ti 3:16 All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
- At the time that Paul wrote this, he had come to appreciate that the Hebrew scriptures contained the "mystery of Christ" hidden in prophetic riddle.
He did not deny that they were written by men, but confessed that God had guided the words of each author in such a way to create the hidden pictures of Christ.
The special nature of the scriptures is not that the authors magically produced them, but that God produced them by guiding the development of language, the circumstances recorded in each history, the observation of those happenings by the author, the author's decisions to include certain details and omit others, the words and word order in such a way to prophesy concerning Christ.
They are not special because of the fingerprint of an apostle, prophet, priest, king, or judge. They are special because of the fingerprint of God.
The Christian myth holds them in high esteem for reasons other than this. Discussions concerning why certain books are canonized do not leave the intellect satisfied and places them in a similar genre such as fairytale. We are requested to believe their authority by faith.
But God permits us to search out his mystery:
- Pr 25:2 ΒΆ [It is] the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings [is] to search out a matter.