Question

How can the gravitational force of the sun mantain the earth in orbit but without attracting us to the sun?

Answer 1

The two objects in question. 1. Earth and 2. A human.

Gravity effects mass. The Earth has a lot more mass than a human. The sun has a lot more mass than Earth.

Most mass Sun
Middle mass Earth
Smallest mass Human

Sun pulls earth. Sun pulls Humans with earth. EARTH PULLS HUMANS BACK.

Sun and humans are touching and now they are treated like 1 entity.

Answer 2

We don't fall into the sun because of our velocity around the sun (orbital velocity). If we were to slow down, we would fall into the sun.

Answer 3

Like what Stan said, basically the way our orbit around the sun works is that we are constantly falling into the sun, but we're moving fast enough that we just keep falling past it. At each point in our orbit, the direction the earth is going is towards the sun, but because we constantly shift position, it never happens.