sounds like you're describing how confirmation works here in the US. Usually done in teen years
eg in early church they def did exactly what you suggest, waited until no possible falling away
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Const & Augustine both baptized v late in life; "sins remitted on baptism, later sins damnable"
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This reached peak in the "consolamentum" of the Cathars, who allegedly waited until near death
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You can see papists have in effect kept all 3 interpretations: baptism, confirmation, unction
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A belief that later stumbles vitiate earlier baptism ends up transferred into weird waiting.
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