Does God have gender and colour?

Patrick (primary school student) asks: What gender and colour is God?

That’s a brilliant question, Patrick—and a really important one too.

The short answer is: God doesn’t have a gender or a colour like we do.

Sometimes we call God “Father,” and sometimes the Bible uses words like “He,” but that doesn’t mean God is actually a man. Those are just ways people have tried to talk about God using the language they had. In other places, the Bible even describes God like a mother who cares for her children. So really, God is bigger than both “boy” and “girl.”

It’s a bit like this: if you tried to say whether love is a boy or a girl—it wouldn’t quite make sense, would it? God is like that—bigger than those categories.

And the same goes for colour. God isn’t one colour, like skin or paint. But you could also say that all colours come from God—every person, every culture, every part of creation reflects something of God’s beauty.

In the Bible, there are moments where people describe God shining with light—bright, dazzling, almost like a rainbow. Not one colour, but many, all at once.

So instead of thinking God is one gender or one colour, we might say:
God is the source of every kind of person, every colour, every bit of beauty we see.

And here’s something really special: the Bible says that every person is made in God’s image. That means you, Patrick—you reflect something true about who God is.

I wonder—when you think about the people in your life, or the colours you love most, what might they show you about God?