Three immediate conclusions:
All these conclusions have been tested experimentally.
In the presence of gravity filed, an inertial observer is not necessarily moving in a straight line (orbiting Space Shuttle). Thus, gravity makes straight lines curved, in other words, it changes the geometry of space, or, more precisely (the SR is still valid!), the geometry of space-time.
Thus, the GR is a theory of a curved (i.e. non-flat) space-time.