You could view it like the Church where they can teach one thing and be the polar opposite, but I'm not sure you can do that with 'the force' or can you?
I haven't really read any of the surrounding Star Wars mythology, so I'm not sure how that all works. Of course you can take it anywhere you want really.
But if the Jedi are actually corrupt then you do get a different dynamic, you get a film with no good guys, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but is more difficult