Hypocrisy of the SDA...helping all religions find a common ground

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Did not God command, via the first three commandments, the Israelis, who were a people who did not love God, not to accept any other “belief/god”?
Did not Christ teach the disciples to love the One and Only God with all of their heart, mind, soul, and strength? This means that we are not to embrace any other belief, as Christ did not compromise with any other belief, not even with the Jews who claimed to serve the God of Abraham.

What is disconcerting is that the 7th Day Adventist Church believes in, advocates, and promotes the belief in the freedom of religion, via PARL and IRLA.

<...Since 1901, the Department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty (PARL) has represented the Seventh-day Adventist Church to governments, religious bodies, and international organizations. By supporting, protecting and defending religious freedom and human rights for all people everywhere, PARL speaks for the church on public affairs and shares Adventist values of freedom of worship and belief. In addition to its function at the General Conference, PARL operates offices on Capitol Hill for representative work to the U.S. Congress, and also in New York City for United Nations liaison.

Conducting congresses, conferences, and other events worldwide to promote religious freedom, inter-faith dialogue, and human rights, PARL helps develop crucial understanding between government officials and religious leaders of all persuasions.

PARL also sponsors, on behalf of the church, the International Religious Liberty Association (IRLA), a non-sectarian organization dedicated to the cause of religious freedom. Seventh-day Adventist leaders were the first to organize such an association, which serves as an umbrella for many regional and national religious liberty affiliates around the world. These connections bring involvement from Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Baptist, Mormon and many other religious persuasions, working together for the religious freedom of all.

The Adventist church is committed to the principle meaning of religious freedom: The differences in religions, throughout the world, should be respected. What we choose to believe and how we choose to worship should be according to the dictates of our conscience. The IRLA continues to defend the right to religious freedom worldwide, by helping all religions find a common ground.>
(ref. SDA / PARL statement of belief)

If one embraces the core belief that we are to love Our Father, and Him Only, how can one accept or promote a belief that dictates that it is right to worship other beliefs/gods as per one’s choice? Is this not what Adam and Eve did when they embraced the tree of knowledge of good and evil and determined, in their own eyes, that its fruit was pleasant and “good”?

I believe that there is One True Way and that Christ is the Only Way to Our Father and Creator. There is no compromise on this. This is a real True Way of life, to be lived as a witness to mankind and against man’s way and belief, which is the way of Satan. Our Father is not to be categorized into a religion among religions, not to be made subject to man’s belief. He does not need to be protected beneath the umbrella belief of freedom of rights and freedom of religion, for when Christ returns as King of kings it will be God’s Way and Only His Way that will be way of life.

Some Christians say that it will be that way when the kingdom is set up....this is a man’s justification...however the Holy Spirit is here now and therefore the true Christians are to live according to the True Way now!