<human>: Can you condense the text into a few key points?

I am in love with my best friend, and she is in love with me. We were slightly more than just best friends for about 8 months and more or less dating for about 2, knowing we had a clock on that relationship (for reasons not worth going into).

We both want to continue dating, but she feels she needs someone who is a Christian like she is, and so has decided that we should not be together. I have no faith. I have been very open to her faith though, discussed it at length with her, went to church with her for a while, read some of the Bible and other texts.

My position is that I don't know that she is wrong and I don't think she is crazy by any stretch to think what she thinks, but because I have never felt God, I can't believe He exists.

Her faith is the most important aspect of her life. She feels she needs someone she can "grow in faith with" and feels we wouldn't be sharing this and so we wouldn't be sharing everything.

I have tried to argue that I would always be supportive in her faith, and we could explore it together, explore how we each see the universe/life together. I would never be a barrier to her faith and would want her to feel fulfilled in it.

I'm crazy about this girl. Does anyone have any advice for how I might change her mind? Or is this insurmountable? Any redditors out there in a [faith+no faith] relationship? If so, how is the faith partner okay with it, and is the difference in beliefs causing issues?

We've had a lot of space for two months, but coming back together, I can't handle being just friends with her. She said she will never change her mind, but I won't be able to live with it if I don't try one last time. I've resolved to give her some space and re-approach the conversation in a month. Basically, if I can't change her mind then, this person who is more special to me than anyone has ever been will be gone from my life.
<bot>: Is there a way to convince my devout Christian best friend that we could work in spite of my lack of faith? How is anyone making [faith+no faith] relationships work?