Your answer about "Fearing God" is interesting. I wrote a long paper on this concept, and the "Fear" that is used in the Bible is the same fear when you say, I am afraid of my Dad. Not Fear per say terrified, but fear of disappointing him because of the expectations.

My worse punishment I think I ever received was from my Grandfather whom I loved dearly. I do not even remember what I did, but I never forget the look of disappointment I got from him. I feared that look, and the internal feeling I had knowing I did not live up to his expectations.

That "Fear" references is a healthy fear, similar to the fear of jumping off a bridge with no parachute, or the fear you have of doing something risky that causes you to stay safe or not take excessive risks.

I am currently working on the roof of my shed, and have fear of falling off the roof. That healthy fear forces me to be extra cautious so I do not make a mistake.

Yes, and Yes. I do not see a real conflict in that we have "free will",....we are only limited by ourselves and oppressive State Overseers.

Yes and Yes.

NO.
NO.

1) Used to be a Baptist church goer for 23 years, then started reading Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, etal.
2) No.

Since I don't believe in a supernatural deity that controls the marionets somewhere below - then I could not be considered a Christian.

Yes.
2. No.

No and No. I walked out of Sunday school when I was four knowing there was no god up there because my Dad was a test pilot and took me up there to see blue sky, white clouds, and wonderful earth below. No god. Studied evolution at 12 and never looked back and thanks to Ayn Rand I only look forward.

no
2. no

No
2. No

Yes and Yes.

No and no. God and the devil are nothing but representations of the good and evil of which our free will makes us capable. That said, I find no error in one appealing to his higher being or higher self to do better.

Yes. But I was always uncomfortable with concept of "fearing God". If he loves us, why should we fear him? No matter how you slice it, faith means belief without proof.
No.

No and no. Interestingly however, my brother who is Christian comes a lot closer to Rand's ideas (on topics other than religion) than my other brother who's an atheist (and a welfare statist).

When I was too young to be confident to make decisions for myself I was a Christian (because my parents and grandparents were.)
Before finding Rand, I had decided that the organized religion, Christianity, was an irrational fraud.
I am closer to Deist than any other religion.

No and no.

Yes. No.

No and no.

1) No - I am ethnic Christian in that my parents told me about it and sometimes took me to a theologically liberal Methodist church but never represented religion as fact but rather stories from our past.
2) No

1) From age of 12 - No
2) No

"Some people believe if you were ever "saved" or proclaimed as one then you are one forever. "

With rather less consequences for apostasy than, say, Islam.

1) Yes
2) Yes

1) depends on your definition. Some people believe if you were ever "saved" or proclaimed as one then you are one forever.

2) No.

1) Yes
2) Yes