Impossibilities and Incredulities If an otherwise flawless manuscript reports clearly impossible matters, it would still have to be disregarded. Thus our next question is whether the New Testament contains accounts of impossibilities, so that we would not be able to use it as a historical source. Many people would say that it does. The Gospels have stories of water being turned to wine, people walking on water, and even dead people coming back to life. Consequently, the historian can clearly not