God is colorblind with respect to skin color. He does not view people with different skin color differently. The reasons for my conclusions are entirely biblical and are as follows :
1. And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
Acts 17
In this passage, Paul claims that everyone came from one man. Whatever your skin's melanin concentration may be , that does not make you different in God's sight. That does not affect your stand before God.
God knows the reason you are dark or bright has to do with the temperature of the area. If you were born among people who lived in tropics or sunny areas, you will have more melanin to cope with it. If you were born among people in a cold area , then you did not need melanin. So you are "white". So the all wise God is colorblind. He knows exactly why you have a particular color; he is neither impressed nor turned down by it.
2. "Let us make man in our image; after our likeness" genesis 1
We humans are made in God's image. That is how God sees us, as his image bearers. Everyman despite his skin color is an image bearer of God. That gives dignity and worth and differentiates us from animals, who do not bear God's image. Our identity according to God is intrinsically linked with being his image bearers and not our skin color or culture or caste or country.
Therefore , God is colorblind and we who are called to be his people, who have failed to reflect his colorblindness, as evidenced in history have a huge responsibility in this global culture to reflect his likeness through our colorblindness .
Let us learn to look at people as image bearers of God and nothing else.
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