ABSTRACT
The theme, of the sole right of God over creation, is a constantly repeated theme in the writings of Irenaeus. One point must be underlined throughout any discussion of Irenaeus's constant insistence on God as the sole Creator God and only Lord of all creation, and that is his assertion of the transcendence of God. This chapter discusses the two disparate existences, of mortality and eternity, of man and God, are set out in terms of the significance of baptism through which the former finds its fulfilment and perfection in the latter. The first point to realize is that, for Irenaeus, decay and death as the end of man are not God's creative intent for humanity. The next is that we have to do with the emphasis in his theology that the difference between God and humanity, Creator and creation, is that of a qualitative nature.
