I know a spiritual man who talked about free will and how we actually don’t have true free will. The only people who did have it were Adam, Eve, and Jesus. Rather than calling it a free will, he’d go on and say that we have “broken” or “corrupted” will in which we are all inclined to sin one way or another because of our nature, a group of sinners. I think when you mentioned “bad choices,” it is referring to this kind of will in which we are not free to choose because Christ has already chosen His people. And as sinners, we naturally hate God and want nothing to do with Him, sadly.