Choices are the building blocks of life. Let's take a simple illustration. When you go on a car trip to a destination you've never visited before, you usually obtain a map. That map shows you the roads that will take you to your destination. If you deliberately refuse to follow the map, it will take you longer to get to your destination, if you get there at all.
Life works the same way.
God has given us a map to follow to get us to success here on earth and to Heaven, our final destination. That map is the Bible. God's directions are clearly spelled out in the Bible. The problem is that most people don't take the time to read them. Or, if they do read them, they don't always follow them.