What happens at death?

What happens to the body and soul when a person dies?

At death, the body and the soul separate (Ecclesiastes 12:7). There is immediate judgment (Hebrews 9:27). On the last day God will reunite body and soul (John 5:28-29), and people will experience an eternity in the presence of God or apart from him in hell based on the presence or absence of Christian faith in their hearts.

All this is reason why the message of the Bible is that people tend to the needs of their soul now (2 Corinthians 6:1-2; Hebrews 4:7).