Here's my take on this:

Point #1 The overwhelming majority of humans do not avail themselves of what we DO have. If and when the human race (or even the general church membership for that matter) would truly start studying and APPLYING the revealed truth we have available to us NOW, then maybe Heavenly Father would dish out more.

Point # 2 As an extrapolation of the above, God is not holding back the big scoop in some petulant snit because we don't appreciate what we've got already. He's doing it out of kindess and love. We are held accountable for the degree of knowledge we've been given. Clearly, the human race has not figured out yet how to "love thy neighbor" or to be proper stewards of the planet we've been given. There is PLENTY of evidence of this. If we can't handle the principles we have at our disposal now, perhaps revealing greater truths would be like giving a toddler the keys to the family car. It's so out of our league that God just shakes His head and says "ya gotta be kidding me right? Maybe when you grow up a bit."

I"m pretty sure we are going to dump all this preliminary stuff before we go "live" for the rest of the world, but no matter. I still wanted to respond further to what Eric brought up.

My first comment dealt with WHY I think God is holding out on us in terms of revealed truth. What I didn't really address was how I think getting new information could impact us when it comes. I'll do it with a story.

When I was a little kid I observed a few things about the world:

1) Grown ups seemed to talk on the phone a lot of the time.

2) Sometimes my parents drove the family car on the side of the road where the mail box was. Sometimes they drove on the OTHER side of the road where the house was. Sometimes I observed them to change from one lane to the other when they passed other cars.

3) TV or newspaper reports occasionally told of traffic accidents - some quite gruesome.

In my little 4 yr old brain, I put all those pieces together to believe that every day all the grown ups who drove cars would call each other on the phone to coordinate at what time of day Mabel would drive on the side of the road by the mail box and what time of day Harold would. Then they would figure out the schedule for who could drive on the other side and how everyone would take turns.

I was still getting used to the concept of sharing and turn taking myself. As the middle kid in a brood of five rambunctious siblings, I was very familiar with having my sister or one of my brothers grab something away from me that was rightfully mine. So I figured that the reason there were traffic accidents was because sometimes someone got greedy and wanted to hog a certain side of the road all to himself to gain some sort of advantage when it was really someone else's turn. My other explaination was that quite possibly some times the phone was busy when their neighbor called to set up the driving schedule for that day, or else the person must have been out watering the roses and didn't hear the phone ring. Whether by ignorance or avarice, I assumed that anyone who didn't stay within the carefully choreographed system of turn taking of sides of the road was a sitting duck for a car crash.

I was explaining this convoluted system to my older and wiser brother one day, feeling very self satisfied that I was so smart I could figure this all out by myself. He of course laughed in my face.
He responded "Don't be so stupid. Everybody just drives on the right side of the road."

I argued back, "No sometimes they drive on the wrong side, that's why they crash." That's when it dawned on my brother that his bratty little sister did not know her right from her left. So he spent the next few minutes teaching me my right hand and my left hand to explain the driving rule.

I was exasperated by this because it was OBVIOUS to me this could not be the case. Clearly, armed with this new big kid knowledge, I could see that as I stood facing the road the mailbox was on the RIGHT side and the house was on the LEFT side. I knew my parents alternately drove on both sides. So his theory made no sense.

To which he simply replied "Turn Around."

In that one instant the whole world changed. By just turning around, suddenly the mailbox transformed to the LEFT side and the house was now on my RIGHT. I kept turning and turning till I was nearly dizzy trying to figure it out. How could they switch like that??

Suddenly I could see in a grand four year old epiphany that what seemed like a complex system of elaborate dos and don'ts for when to drive where was all capsulated by one basic rule to stay on the right side. It had nothing to do with the phone calls. It would be many years before I would know the vocabulary of spurious correlations, but I got the concept down solid when I was four.

What the heck does this have to do with the gospel and revealed truth?

I believe that as new truth comes to us there will be things that make many of the complex, ambiguous, confusing aspects of life evaporate completely, just as my old world view did when I learned about right and left and how they shifted when I changed the direction I was facing.

Some of it will seem wonderful, exciting, great - yet at the same time so striking in hindsight that we will wonder how we could have possibly held the faulty assumptions about the world we had before. Some things, though, may be a bit tougher to swollow.

Many times people don't really go looking for truth. They go looking for confirmation of what they already believe. I suspect some of us will balk, discounting the new information if accepting it requires any radical shifts of world view.

(take for example the resistance many LDS people had to the discontinuing of polygamy or the difficulty some had with the revelation that allowed all worthy males to hold the Priesthood.)

That's the amazing thing about being part of a dynamic, living gospel where we are GUARENTEED there will be changes. We each get the opportunity to adapt, accept and grow with new informaton or to charffe and hold back or criticize what we don't understand. People get familiar with a certain way of doing things or patterns of thinking. When that shifts...some people will lose their way.

I think the next generation or two could be one interesting ride as our prophets continue to give us direction specifically suited to the times we will be in.

I was going to blow out all of the posts before we launch, but gee--if you two put the effort into typing all this up, might as well keep it...

Aaaaah shucks, that was easy. For our next trick...

Just cut & paste it and put it up again for the launch =)

This touches on something I've wondered before. What if the scriptures and whatnot as we have them now are really just for men, that is to say males. Sure they work alright for women too, but they're for and about men. I've wondered if some of the additional scriptures, or further knowledge might be for and about women in ways we've never seen before.

I've suspected that there were probably oral traditions (stories like those in the scriptures) that were passed down from mother to daughter that were lost with each falling away. Things like that would have to be restored through revelation and revelation alone.

Interesting concept, Starfoxy! Have you ever read the book THE RED TENT by Anita Diamant? As the review I've linked to here says: "The Red Tent is a novel of biblical times (and of the customs of those times), detailing the imagined lives of Rachel and Leah, two wives of Jacob (both true biblical figures) and, subsequently, the imagined story of Dinah, the daughter of Leah, also a true biblical figure. The "red tent" of the title refers to the tent the women of the tribe remain in while experiencing their "time of the month" or while giving birth. Rachel (Dinah's aunt), Leah (Dinah's mother), and later Dinah herself, all become midwives, helping other women who are delivering their babies. There is much "begetting" in the bible (so-and-so begat so-and-so who begat so-and-so and so on) and there is much begetting in this novel as well, except here we are given the end result of each "begat" in great detail."

It's a powerful book that I enjoyed immensely. Although a novel rather than documented history it definitely gives an interesting spin on what our spiritual legacy might be like if we had records handed down by the women as well as (or instead of) the men!