…..God said let there be and the earth came to exist, covered with water but the dirt was there, it was just covered with water. The Scriptures allude that the continental body of earth was revealed as God caused the waters to part or recede so that it was revealed beneath the water. ….
It's an interesting thought, and I'll afford a lot of grace for how that initial primordial process looked. But I would even be careful saying dirt was there initially. Genesis doesn't, in fact it would appear that the waters themselves were a description of the unformed land in the initial stages of Genesis. Land (earth) was described as formless initially. If initially land was a solid mass under the waters, it would not be formless, just covered.
Remember too, it also would not be proper to think of these waters as an ocean. The ocean was not formed until day 3, and it was formed by these same initial primordial waters.
I don't think Genesis 1 intended to describe a flooded solid landmass, but rather an unformed land—a land that was formless like liquid. Then God formed the solid land out of these non-solid waters. Both the land and sea were formed out of these.
One clue we get from the N.T. is Peter's revelation in which he says:
2Pet. 3:5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water.
Perhaps the waters were the initial particles/building blocks of our entire planet. And actually, to be precise, only a portion of them were used. On day 2 we're told that God divided these initial primordial waters, and thrust one dividend above us, far away, to the other side of the heavens. The remaining waters were used to make the land and sea.
That's my take currently, anyway. I'm am definitely open to more clues from the text.
"And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep."
Water is without form, but not void. Gas is formless and void. Matter has three basic states (unless you include plasma); solid, liquid and gas. When gas cools it becomes liquid, which cools to become solid. It reads to me like the Lord intentionally chose a process we would later discover to hold true to the world around us. The Bible never says the Lord spoke the earth into being. We can only reason that since He later in Exodus 20:11 told Moses that the entire process only took six days that on that first day the earth was created in its entirety. The light that was created was NOT the sun, moon and stars. I believe those bodies and the rest of the galaxie was created on day four as detailed.
I would agree with much, but be careful mixing modern nomenclature with ancient ones. Liquid can also be thought of as non-solid, as well as void or empty so long as nothing solid is submerged within it. Plus, God chose to use the term waters as the initial primordial substance, not gas or air or wind. Peter refers to the earth (land) being made from water not air.
And let's also consider the miraculous. Christ formed wine from water. He certainly could have formed a planet (land and sea) from water. The natural processes we understand today, would not have been needed in a creative act such as this.
