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Fear, as was described earlier is not the terror of which you speak and it is disingenuous for you to use that word.

Funny, "disingenuous" is precisely the word I'd apply to your attempts to claim that the word "fear" in this context doesn't mean exactly what most people understand it to mean. Trembling is a physical response to terror, by the way.

Go on believing in you warm and cuddly, no consequences version of God. I hope it serves you well.

Thank you. I likewise wish you the same with your ferocious, vindictive version of God.

Paul speaking to the Philippians (2:12)
Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed--not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence--continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling,

The Amplified Bible translates this verse, "work out-cultivate, carry out to the goal and fully complete - your own salvation with reverence and awe and trembling -> (self-distrust, that is, with serious caution, tenderness of conscience, watchfulness against temptation, timidly shrinking from whatever might offend God and discredit the name of Christ).

Phil 2:13
For it is God who worketh in you both to will and to do His good pleasure.

God is always leading our born again spirit, under the influence of the Holy Spirit, in the direction of His will. That's what pleases Him. Yet, we have a say in what takes place in our lives. God puts it in but we have to work it out.

The words 'work out' comprise the verb KATERGAZOMAI in the Greek, and, according to Wuest's Word Studies of the New Testament Greek, means "to carry out to the goal, to carry to its ultimate conclusion. We say, "The student worked out a problem in arithmetic.' That is, he carried the problem to its ultimate conclusion. This is the way that it is used here.

The Philippian Church are exhorted to carry their salvation to its ultimate conclusion, namely Christlikeness. Like it explains, we have to watch ourselves carefully - because of temptation, etc and shrink away from anything that offends God - as we walk out our salvation. (That's the trembling).