In actuality, however, doctrine is only one of the many forms of control within the extended family. In the case of abusive father figures who use the Bible, all sorts of distorted concepts are taught using the Bible, where passages are usually taken out of context or totally misinterpreted. For the sake of control, and for pretending that one has all the answers. Many people think so, and go looking for a system or ideology that provides simple answers to complex subjects. Few natural fathers are intentionally evil, if you define evil as being morally bad or wrong.
Abusive fathers justify their behavior as necessary to keep the family in line.
More gentle and heartwarming ways of guiding a family are not even seriously considered. The root of such thinking lies in the lack of trust of the family members and the lack of candid communication with them. An abusive father may know very well the behaviors and tendencies of his family, but rarely becomes intimate with the individual members in a vulnerable setting, unless it is to use it as a further tool to abuse them. Since he doesn t know them well, he can t trust them, and ascribe all sorts of evil motives to them. His personal guilt over his own moral failure complicates it even further, making him less and less vulnerable to his family.