Since he is personal and we are too, your suspicion is unfounded.
Yes, rather. But he humbled himself to become like us.
You will not succeed in your secular quest to find “what gives rise to God belief”, and I am having a little difficulty not being offended by your characterization of Maggie’s God that way. (Too late – I failed.) We have objective and detectable evidence of what gives rise to belief in the God of reality. It’s the reality of God.
Time to recall a little Bonhoeffer:
But if you prefer to entertain the mirage of panentheism… (Now recall a child’s onomatopoeic sound of a train whistle.)