You made several claims about what the Bible says.
The onus is on you to prove your claim is true by citing the Scripture.
You are committing the logical fallacy of "argument by assertion".
Merely asserting the Bible says what you claim does not prove your claim is true.
You need to establish the truth of your claim with evidence; such as citing Scripture and giving reasons why it supports your claim.
Let's review the four original premises you claimed were true and see if your response attempts to prove them:
1. That there are circumstances in which satan or God do not have free will and are forced to act.
2. That they are forced to answer a challenge to their authority.
3. What it actually means to "challenge their authority".
4. That this experiment designed by the OP fits within your claim of a challenge satan would be forced to answer.
So right away we see you have not attempted to prove any of the claims you made about satan or the OP's test. You didn't even mention satan, let alone try to prove you claims about him to be true using the Bible.
Remember, your original claim was that the OP's test is a valid way to test satan, because you claimed satan is forced to kill you within 24 hours if you challenge him to. You also claimed the same about God, but ultimately arguing about God in that way is not relevant to the claim you made unless you are assuming that what can be proven to be true of God is assumed to automatically also be true of satan - an assumption you have no basis for and which you will never be able to prove using the Bible.
Your entire argument is null and invalid in the sense that it's appears to be based on a logical fallacy of presuming that if you can prove something to be true about God then it automatically means that is true about satan. On that baseis alone, because you don't even try to prove anything about satan, but only talk about God, your original claims about satan are invalided and you have proven you have no biblical proof for your claims about satan.
And, as I said, you won't be able to prove your claims about satan to be true using the Bible, as you claimed you could, because there is nothing in the Bible that will prove your claim to be true.
But, since I did challenge you also to prove your claims about God were in the Bible, let's talk about how your ideas about God are also wrong (even though it's not really relevant to proving your original claim about the OP's test):
You only talked about God, and even then you failed to address several of your key premises about God:
1. You failed to define what you think it means to "challenge His authority".
2. And you failed to establish, either with logical reasoning or scriptural facts, that God was forced to act and had no free will.
3. You never give any reasons why, even if your claims about God are true, what logical or factual reason we would have to believe your claim that what is true of how God operates is also assumed to be true of how satan operates.
About the only thing you did try to establish in your post was the idea that people "challenged God's authority" and therefore were killed. But, we will see, upon closer scrutiny, that you did not even prove that claim to be true with the accounts you referenced.
First let's examine the structure of your argument, starting with identifying your premises:
The first three premises are directly related to what you originally tried to assert, so we'll deal with those.
Premise 1: That these Bible accounts you referenced represent "challenges to God's authority".
Premise 2: That God kills people instantly for "challenging His authority".
Premise 3: That God was forced to act when His "authority was challenged" and did not have free will to do otherwise.
The following are also premises that you tried to assert as part of your post, but they actually are completely irrelevant to proving or disproving your original claims regardless of whether or not they are true:
Premise 4. That God is jealous
Premise 5. That God is egotistical.
Premise 6: That God had malice in putting the tree of good and evil in the garden.
Premise 7: That God demands mindless obedience.
Premise 8: That God lied to Adam.
I could dispute all of those as untrue based on the Bible but, since they fall under the category of logical fallacies, there would be no need to address them here because they are not relevant to proving your original claim.
They all fall under the logical fallacy of "Irrelevant Conclusion" - because whether or not they are true they are still irrelevant to proving your original claim. The things you assert about God's character have no relevance to proving your claims that there is a certain way you can "challenge His authority" that forces Him to act and that He has no free will at that point.
It's also possible you could be engaging in the logical fallacies of "Red Herring" or "Ad Hominem" (against God) - in the sense that you're trying to distract from the fact that you don't really have a solid Biblical basis for your original claims by throwing up a smoke screen of character attacks against God hoping to divert the discussion into that topic instead.
Your premise #3 is an easy one to shoot down, and with it your entire conclusion. Because your entire claim is invalidated unless you can first prove premise #3.
You have given no reason for why your claim is true that you think God was forced to act and had no free will. In the case of the Elijah account you merely assert He "couldn't resist" acting, but you don't give any reasons why your assertion is true. We can just as easily assume he made the choice to act and and wasn't forced to. You need to give reasons why you think it wasn't a choice He made but why you think He was forced to.
You're guilty of the logical fallacy of "argument by assertion" - you are merely re-asserting your original claim without giving reasons why your claim is true.
In fact, you've given no logical or scriptural reasons in any of your post why you think God was forced to act and had no free will in any of these situations. If you can't establish that premise is true then your entire original claim falls apart that someone could force God to respond to their challenge and they he would have no ability to resist answering the challenge by bringing immediate death upon them.
In fact, the entire Bible would disprove your premise that God is forced to immediately kill people who "challenge his authority" (which we can only assume based on your examples you think is synonymous with disobeying God or insulting His prophets). There are very few accounts of people being immediately struck dead for doing something wrong. Many evil kings and individuals live long lives beyond the point of disobeying God or persecuting His prophets. Now, I assume you know that to be true about the Bible, so I don't see the need to go dig up half the Bible as a reference to prove that - but if you don't believe that Biblical fact, and want to dispute it, then I will be happy to provide you with Scriptural proof for it.
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