Mark 9:47,48 "And if your eye makes you stumble, throw it away. It is better for you to enter one-eyed into the Kingdom of God than to be thrown with two eyes into Ge·hen′na, 48 where the maggot does not die and the fire is not put out."
One problem with taking this verse literally, is now the worms have joined the wicked and are partaking in this eternal torture. Fortunately we have a parallel bible verse which seems to give us the meaning of worms not dying
Isaiah 66:24"And they will go out and look on the carcasses of the men who rebelled against me; For the worms on them will not die, And their fire will not be extinguished, And they will become something repulsive to all people."
Here we see that the maggots that do not die, are referred to being on carcasses. When flys lay eggs on carcasses, the maggots born from the eggs begin eating away at the rotting/decomposing flesh. So if the maggots never die, they would have an infinite supply of rotting/decomposing flesh at their disposal. In the sense of the lake of fire, the maggots will figuratively feed on the dead bodies forever.
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