why was the texts of Paul considered the word of God?

Paul was named Saul before he was born-again in Christ. Saul detested Christians as heretics and was the one who held the coat of Stephen and approved the stoning of Stephen who was the first Christian martyred for his faith. Saul met Jesus when Saul was on his way to find and persecute Christians. As a result of his encounter with Jesus, Saul turned his life around and became not only a Christian who was now called Paul, but eventually was martyred for his faith in Jesus. This change from being a sinner who thinks only of himself and his own gains, and turns into a believer who rejects sinning and desires only to honor and serve the Lord is called "being born-again". Paul gives his testimony about his born-again experience 3 times in the Book of Acts.

While many people think Paul lived 100s of years after Jesus, Paul was actually a contemporary of Jesus to whom the Resurrected Jesus appeared.

Paul described himself as...

1- a servant of Jesus Christ;

2- having experienced an unforeseen, sudden, startling change due to all-powerful grace—not the fruit of his reasoning or thoughts; Jesus called this being "born again". [Gal. 1:12-15] [1 Cor. 15:10]. Paul describes his born-again experience three times in the Book of Acts. Every Christian who is born-again has a unique encounter with Jesus Christ, and Paul describes his own experience with Jesus when he describes 1) who he was and what he was like as a sinner before he met Jesus. 2) how he encountered Jesus. And 3) how he was changed by GOD for the better, into a completely new person, after meeting Jesus.

3- having seen Christ as did the other apostles when Christ appeared to him [1 Cor. 15:8] as he appeared to Peter, to James, to the Twelve, after His Resurrection. [1 Cor. 9:1]

4- called to be an apostle;

5- set apart for the Gospel of God.

The criteria the early Church used for recognizing and collecting the Word of God are:

1- Was the book written by a prophet of God?

2- Was the writer authenticated by miracles to confirm his message?

3- Does the book tell the truth about God, with no falsehood or contradiction?

4- Does the book evidence Divine capacity to transform lives?

5- Was the book accepted as God's Word by the people to whom it was first delivered?

The Church of Thessalonica received Paul's word as the Word of God (1 Thessalonians 2:13).

Paul's epistles circulated among the Churches even during apostolic times (Colossians 4:16).

The apostle Peter recognized Paul's writings as inspired by God and equated them with "the rest of the Scriptures" (2 Peter 3:15-16).

Paul quoted the Gospel of Luke and called it Scripture (1 Timothy 5:18).

Paul, Luke, Peter and Timothy knew each other personally and Paul was a companion of these men at times when travelling to spread the message of the Gospel.

In the earliest days of the Church a strong oral tradition was left by the Apostles with very little perceived need for an authoritative group of recognized Christian writings. But when heresies threatened apostolic doctrine and teaching, a more formal response was needed to define and identify documents recognized as authoritative. It was then that the canon was recognized, with Paul's inspired writings being most important.

The Holy Bible stands on its own. There are no extra-Biblical books of explanations by multiple scholars needed to understand the Truth of the Holy Bible. Paul, who lived around the time of Jesus, was one of the people to whom God gave the gifts of wisdom, prophecy, discernment, and apostleship. Born-again believers throughout the ages read what Paul wrote in Scripture and can plainly understand Biblical Truth because the Spirit of God Who inspired Paul is the same Spirit Who lives in us.

Good question. There are plenty of Christians who consider them to be no such thing.

Jesus chose Paul [ after having to shock him a bit by blindness...] knowing that Paul was a person who always ' followed through" as he did when persecuting those SAME people he finished up leading...

Paul never slacked off...and it was an aspect that Jesus put to good use...for good.

someone made this universe and all the planets and stars and these amazing animals and plants and even humans. So I figure if he knows how to make a planet habitable and moves suns into place. I am sure he can inspire a book to be written the way he wants it to be written.

Checkmate. Paul is just a glorified version of Homer the storyteller.

~Aizen

For your interest...

"2:7 On the contrary, they recognised that I had been commissioned to preach the Good News to the uncircumcised just as Peter had been commissioned to preach it to the circumcised.

2:8 The same person whose action had made Peter the apostle of the circumcised had given me a similar mission to the pagans.

2:9 So, James, Cephas and John, these leaders, these pillars, shook hands with Barnabas and me as a sign of partnership: we were to go to the pagans and they to the circumcised.[*a]

2:10 The only thing they insisted on was that we should remember to help the poor, as indeed I was anxious to do.

Paul was an anointed apostle of Jesus himself. While not while he was living like the other apostles, the manner of his conversion shows Christ coming and turning him not only from his path, but placing him into the ministry of preaching to the gentiles. This ministry was foretold in scripture and was fulfilled through Paul. His insights are perfectly inspired by the Holy Spirit, just as the other writings of apostles were, and ultimately they were passed around by the early church. As the gospel reached the gentiles and spread, quite often Paul's letters were some of the more helpful in understanding the position and mental state the previously shunned gentiles should have. For this reason, his letters were copied just as much as other letters/books, and ultimately was seen to have the same God given hand that all other books written by the Holy Spirit's influence are.

The same reason all books of the Bible are considered the inspired Word of God.

We Muslims don't view them as the word of God, we view Paul as a corrupter.

All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial