"For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." (Matthew 5:18).
The Scripture, knowledge of it, and the ability to access it exactly is not to be lost in human history. God is powerful enough to keep His Word through history. God is powerful enough to cause the right manuscripts to be gathered together at the right time by the right people with the right learning, so that they could judge rightly what exactly is the Word of God: the King James Bible.
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why the 1611 KJV? (Why not an earlier English translation? Is there such thing as an inspired non-English version or is the KJV the only inspired English version? Was there an inspired version before man had the KJV?)
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Most enemies of KJBO say or imply that we believe that the KJB translators were inspired 1604-1611. However, most KJBO people do not believe that.
When you look at the English Bibles of the Reformation, you can observe general improvement through time. However, improvement is not an ongoing or never ending process. It is toward a definite end, namely, to arrive at a perfect text (the words and their order right) and perfect translation (the exact sense of the originals given in English).
If you look at (the makers of) modern versions, they deny that they contain the exact text and a perfect translation, and they deny that it is even attainable. They have a doctrine that no one can exceed 99.9% accuracy, and all their versions differ to some degree, so that in fact each new modern version, and continuing modern textual studies is actually raising the variety, uncertainty, confusion and therefore non-absoluteness of the Word of God.
If you look at the external history of the KJB, you will find that the signs are there showing that it is consistent with being right and being God's plan and choice. If you look at the internal consistency, you will find that it is always accurate, self-authenticating. Whatever the Scripture in the KJB says, when you apply it to the KJB, it is always right. And every so called "textual error", "translation error" never holds up when you study within the KJB, and every "contradiction" can always be explained within the KJB, so that there is only consistency on its own authority.