sounds like you're describing how confirmation works here in the US. Usually done in teen years
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Ultimately the importance attached to infant baptism comes from this idea about falling away...
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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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