The religion of Shinto is in opposition to Christianity.  In its purest form it teaches the superiority of the Japanese people and their land above all others on earth and that is diametrically opposed to the teaching of the Bible.  According to the Bible, the Jews are God's chosen people through whom He entrusted His words.  "What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?  Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God" (Romans 3:1,2).  However, though the Jews are God's chosen people, they have never been designated better than any other people (Galatians 3:27), and they've never been taught that they were direct descendants of the gods, as Shinto teaches its people.  Thus, Shinto is Satanic!

Shinto fosters a pride and a feeling of superiority in the Japanese people.  This type of pride is condemned by God, who says, "...There is none righteous, no, not one" (Romans 3:10).  The same lesson was learned by the Apostle Peter who concluded: "Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons" (Acts 10:34).  Since Shinto teaches the basic goodness and divine origin of its people, there is no need for a personal Savior.  This is the natural consequence of assuming one's race is of celestial origin.  Christianity teaches that all of us need a savior because our sins need to be punished. God, through Jesus Christ, took that punishment on Himself so that all mankind could be brought back into a proper relationship with Him.  Jesus plainly stated in John 14:6, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

Furthermore, the Kojiki and Nihongi, as the basis of the Shinto myth, are found to be hopelessly unhistorical and totally unverifiable.  The stories and legends contained in these works are a far cry from the historically verifiable documents of both the Old and New Testaments.  The concept of kami is both polytheistic and crude, surrounded by much superstition.  This is in sharp contrast to the God of the Bible, whose ways are righteous and beyond reproach.  Immorality abounds in the stories of Shinto; while the Bible is quick to condemn acts of immorality (Matthew 5:28).

Shinto finds little acceptance apart from Japan since everything of Japanese origin is exalted and that which is non-Japanese is abased.  Shinto is a textbook example of a religion invented by man to explain his ancestry and environment while taking no consideration of anyone but himself.  While Shinto teaches that the kami might commune with those who have made themselves worthy through ritual purification, the God of the Bible promises to be present to anyone who calls upon Him for forgiveness (Romans 10:13).  No amount of personal purification (a form of salvation by works) will make a person worthy of the presence of God in his life (Romans 4:5).  Only faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ on the cross can accomplish cleansing from sin and make us acceptable to a holy God... “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” (2nd Corinthians 5:21).  What a wonderful Savior!