"We are not the source of truth.  Our perceptions aren't truth."  If we were to believe that Jesus walked around spelling out everything to the apostles: what EXACTLY we are to believe; how EXACTLY we are to govern this church; what garments priests, bishops, cardinals, popes were to wear, etc., we are ridiculous!  God is a Pure and Simple Spirit [not simplistic---that term often falls to some writers on this site].  Jesus didn't dictate anything, nor did God DICTATE [like the old time bosses of companies to their secretaries], every word put into the Old Testament.  Inspiration is not the same concept, as word-for-word dictation.


God wants us to think, to discover, to learn from our mistakes as well as learn from our successes.  We DO NOT POSSESS all truth [no institution, including the Church, possess that].
We are to continue to Grow, to Wonder, to Learn, to Discover, to Improve.  St. Thomas learned that God is a God of Surprises---nothing that Jesus did is the Same Old, Same Old!