[Virginia-American]

Here's the theory stripped of its sonorous dignified overtones: you can do as much evil as you like for as long as you like, and then profess to know christ as savior, and you get to be "saved" or "righteous" or whatever the flavor of the moment is.

Consider Constantine, he was a grotesque tyrant, put off being baptized until he was on his deathbed, now he's a saint.

[DannyTN]

"Consider Constantine, he was a grotesque tyrant, put off being baptized until he was on his deathbed, now he's a saint."

Just because the Catholic church calls someone a saint, doesn't necessarily make them one. On the other hand, just because you call someone a grotesque tyrant, doesn't necessarily make him one either.

God decides whether he was a saint or not. Water, Baptism doesn't save you. And deathbed baptisms were apparently common in the 4th century.