If a person sincerely desires to use the Bible of which God FULLY approves, yes. The Holy Spirit will lead that person to the King James Bible. That is my personal experience as well as that of my wife (and many others).
Could an English translation have remained in use for over 400 years unless it had God's approval? The Geneva Bible was a contemporary of the KJB, but today it is rarely if ever used. For hundreds of years, the English-speaking world (which included the whole British Empire) used the Authorized Version, and all recognized commentators used this Bible without a murmur. And not all of them were Anglicans either.
Had the Revision Committee of the Church of England in the 19th century consisted of only conservative scholars committed to making only absolutely necessary revisions to the KJB, we would not be having any controversies today. They were given a very specific mandate to maintain the Authorized Version and make only revisions which were deemed to be absolutely necessary. Instead Westcott & Hort gained a place on that committee, and subverted the Greek Text as well as the English translation. If you wish to know the details read and study The Revision Revised by Dean John William Burgon.
The English Revised Version (RV) of 1881 spawned all the modern versions such as the ASV, the RSV, the NASV, etc. etc. But a hoax was perpetrated by W & H, and almost everyone fell for it. Just like the hoax of the COVID pandemic. Which shows jhow easy it is to fool everyone.
So the amount of time that something exists is what grants it approval from God?? Sin has existed since Adam... I'm sure you wouldn't argue that God approves of sin. Or is it its popularity?? Is it the popularity of the KJV that grants it this approval from God that you believe it has???
I'm not saying that the KJV is the worst translation out there, but it's definitely not the best... and its completely illogical to call a specific translation having God's approval over others. You are totally allowed to feel that way, but it is not based off of factual information.
Problems with the KJV:
Of course the well known ones I mentioned before are "Easter" in
Acts 12:4 and "Israel" in
Deu 32:8.... But those are the small errors.
The KJV (and other Masoretic Text translations) mess up when it comes to leaving out names and anything dealing with numbers...
1. In The Messiahs genealogy in
Luke 3:36 there is name Cainan (not to be confused with Canaan). You can find the record of him in both
Genesis 10:24 and 11:13 in the Septuagint. He is missing from both places in the KJV.
2. There is also a big issue with the similar name Canaan.... There are many movies, pastors, etc. that teach the Israelites were in Egypt for 430 years (
Exo 12:40). This is not possible. Moses was 80 when they left Egypt (
Exo 7:7)... Moses' Father Amram lived to 137 (
Exo 6:20).... and Moses' grandfather Kohath lived to 133 (
Exo 6:18) who went with Jacob to Egypt (
Gen 46:11 and 46:26). You don't even get 430 years when you add up the 80 years that Moses was in Egypt plus the entire life spans of his father and grandfather put together. The math just doesn't work.
The reality is, they were only in Egypt 215 years, not 430 years. But the KJV (Masoretic Text) left out Canaan from
Exo 12:40. They were in Egypt
and the land of Canaan for 430 years. The Septuagint, Samaritan Pentateuch and Josephus all agree on this. I suggest checking out the video "How long were the Israelites in Egypt" on YouTube by NathanH83
3. The KJV added 3ft (2 cubits) to Goliath's height (
1 Sam 17:4)
4. In Genesis 11 it gives the Genealogy from Shem to Abram... and it tells how old each person was when their son was born. The KJV drops 100 years off of all these ages. For example in
Gen 11:14 Salah lived 130 years and begat Eber... The KJV has Salah being 30 when this happened. This happens for all 6 generations in this passage which makes the translations off by 600 years. Again, The Septuagint, The Samaritan Pentateuch and Josephus are all in line on this.... its the Masoretic text (KJV) that is the odd one out. If you go by the KJV numbers, they have Shem outliving his son, grandson, great great grandson, great great great grandson, etc. He would have witnessed a lot of death of his offspring and been alive to know Abram as an older man... which there is no record of.
Many times the KJV does match with cross referenced verses from the New Testament:
5.
In Acts 7:14 you will see Josephs family being 75 people. Well this is referring to
Gen 46:27 and Exo 1:5... The KJV has both of these as "70 people". The Septuagint and Dead Sea Scrolls correctly have 75 in those verses.
6. In
Luke 4:18 The Messiah says one of the things he was sent to do was
recover the sight to the blind. That is supposed to be a reference to
Isaiah 61:1.... but that phrase is completely missing from the KJV.
This has already gone on long enough, so I'm not going to put a bunch of cross reference scriptures on here... but when they are referring to the OT, I recommend that you compare NT scriptures to the KJV and a Septuagint translation side by side. You will see that The Septuagint will be inline with the NT much more often.
I have seen worse translations than the KJV, but the KJV definitely has its issues as well.