For many years Muslims have, since they first encountered developed Christian thought, pondered the relationship between the various aspects of dogmatic theology (sometimes called "Kalam"). Because the Westminster Confession of Faith (1646) accurately reflects the system of theology found in the holy Scripture, its theology of Christ (Christology), for instance, neatly comports with its doctrine of Scripture. This is an example of what it means to show that the Bible has "the [mutual] consent of all the parts."

This is not at all the case with Islam. Two important points concerning Islamic theology render it logically impossible [not two points only, many others exist too, but only two will be considered here], and thus idolatrous, creating a distortion of the Nature of the One True and Living God. At each point, these first-order deficiencies of Islam show up in a respective failure to provide the logical preconditions for making sense out of the world. These doctrinal culprits have names. The first Islamic gaff bears the appellation