I've heard two opposing views of gravity, and many compilations. The first being:
That gravity acts upon a static background and is a force that is there because of mass and it just is.
And the second being that the curvature of spacetime because of mass causes objects to follow different paths making it seem they are 'attracted' to each other.
Obviously, the first one is wrong, and has been disproven by GR and experiments since then. However, the second seems to be a common conception, but I don't understand how that would work. Because if something is merely curvature and I were to have a large body say, a black hole who influences much space around it to have curvature, (the black hole is at rest), and then I have me, standing 100m away from the black hole, at rest, would I fall into the black hole?
If we were both at rest there would need to be energy required to push me into the black hole, curvature of space isn't energy...
And of course, the curving of space wouldn't cause me to 'fall' into the black hole because 'falling' is an effect of gravity.
I'm utterly confused, and I am sure other people are as well.
Clarification please?